As one child said, “YouĬan’t eat a picture!” Others shifted their thinking outside the room to what they planned to do Imagined it as a lump of cotton or as a mere picture of a marshmallow. Instead of thinking about how yummy the marshmallow was, they In each study some children were able toĪvoid the temptation by finding ways of distracting themselves from what Mischel calls the “hot Temptations to school aged children and teenagers. Later the test was administered with more sophisticated Twenty minutes is a long time for a 4 year old to waitįor anything, and sure enough, hidden cameras revealed the struggles these children went Until the experimenter returned and having the other two. Each child was given the choice of having one marshmallow immediately or waiting
Gratification by sitting them down in front of three marshmallows, two on one side and one on Some years ago psychologist Walter Mischel explored young children’s ability to delay
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