PSY230H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Walter Mischel, The Delay, Defence Mechanisms
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Goal are things that you wish for the future. Dual models- tests how your conscious goal and the impulses are unconscious. People have to fight between the short and long term gains- this is called will power. Marshmallow study - done by walter mischel. What are the strategies that children use to delay gratification and what we can teach them to delay it. Got information about the children later in life (now in teens: the children could hold out longer, predicted that they were more smarter, social and successful in later life. Correlations between delay ties and sat scores 10 years later. When the marshmallow was exposed it was harder to stop themselves to eat it. Only in the exposed condition was there a correlation that the children were more successful later one. Only in times of temptation is will power tested. Low grades want money now, and higher grades want it later.
