PSY 302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Attention Span, Ambivalence, Staling
2 Sep 2013
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Walter mischel study ability to delay immediate gratification in order to obtain larger rewards. Some children distracted themselves by singing, sleeping, or making up games (more successful) while others just looked at the rewards or the bell. Indicator for social and cognitive competence and their coping skills at older age. Those who waited longer had higher sat scores, higher educational levels, higher self- esteem, reported better able to cope with stress, less likely to use cocaine or crack. Predicator or how well people do in life (social) Individual differences: nature vs. nurture, continuity/ discontinuity emergence of self-conscious emotions. Subjective feelings: cognitions that may elicit or accompany subjective feelings, desire to take action (escape, approach, change people or things in environment) Some argue that, infants only able to experience excitement and distress in first weeks of life and other emotions emerge at later ages as a function of experience. Move from most primitive to more advanced.
