The Marshmallow Experiment
The Marshmallow Test
Walter Mischel had a horrible time trying to quit smoking. He started out young and as he grew older he just couldn’t stop smoking. He continued smoking through his years as a graduate student at Ohio State and into the beginning of his teaching career as a psychologist at Harvard then Stanford. His smoking was so bad he eventually was smoking three packs a day. That is just crazy to think someone can smoke three packs in just one day, but I also think someone smoking one pack in a day is crazy too. Mischel realized that smoking could kill him, but his attempts to quit smoking all failed. He would quit then start smoking again just like when most people try to quit something and can’t so they start right back up again. …show more content…
He is an American psychologist specializing in personality theory and social psychology. The study was a child was put into a room alone with an instructor telling them that they can have one marshmallow right now and eat it whenever. Or if they wait 15 to 20 minutes to eat it and they would get a second marshmallow. The studies showed that children who were able to wait the 15 or 20 minutes tended to have a better life outcomes, such as SAT scores, educational attainment, body mass, and other life measures. I also believe that it is true that having to wait for something there will always be a better outcome in the …show more content…
“Success usually comes down to choosing the pain of discipline over the ease of distraction. And that’s exactly what delayed gratification is all about” I think that is very true. Delayed gratification is just waiting for something better.
If a kid doesn’t pass the marshmallow experiment parents start to wonder what they should do. Mischel states he would remind the parents that there are a large number of cognitive skills that can be used and practiced if kids have a serious self-control problem. At one point Mischel used poker chips instead of marshmallows and he got the same effects. That’s interesting that no matter what he could use he would still end up with the same numbers of people who waited and people who couldn’t
Walter Mischel had a horrible time trying to quit smoking. He started out young and as he grew older he just couldn’t stop smoking. He continued smoking through his years as a graduate student at Ohio State and into the beginning of his teaching career as a psychologist at Harvard then Stanford. His smoking was so bad he eventually was smoking three packs a day. That is just crazy to think someone can smoke three packs in just one day, but I also think someone smoking one pack in a day is crazy too. Mischel realized that smoking could kill him, but his attempts to quit smoking all failed. He would quit then start smoking again just like when most people try to quit something and can’t so they start right back up again. …show more content…
He is an American psychologist specializing in personality theory and social psychology. The study was a child was put into a room alone with an instructor telling them that they can have one marshmallow right now and eat it whenever. Or if they wait 15 to 20 minutes to eat it and they would get a second marshmallow. The studies showed that children who were able to wait the 15 or 20 minutes tended to have a better life outcomes, such as SAT scores, educational attainment, body mass, and other life measures. I also believe that it is true that having to wait for something there will always be a better outcome in the …show more content…
“Success usually comes down to choosing the pain of discipline over the ease of distraction. And that’s exactly what delayed gratification is all about” I think that is very true. Delayed gratification is just waiting for something better.
If a kid doesn’t pass the marshmallow experiment parents start to wonder what they should do. Mischel states he would remind the parents that there are a large number of cognitive skills that can be used and practiced if kids have a serious self-control problem. At one point Mischel used poker chips instead of marshmallows and he got the same effects. That’s interesting that no matter what he could use he would still end up with the same numbers of people who waited and people who couldn’t