Thursday, January 26, 2012

"By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character." - Grenville Kleiser

Internet Movie Database: I am fairly obsessed with watching movies. A website that i frequently go to is IMDB. It is a movie website that has message boards where you can voice your opinion on basically any movie or television show out there.











The experiment they are performing on these young children is called the "Marshmallow Test." How it is conducted is by having a child in the room with one marshmallow set in front of them. They are told by the conductor that they can eat the marshmallow now if they'd like, but if they wait until the experimenter comes back, then they can have another marshmallow. 

The results of whether the child eats the marshmallow before the conductor comes back is what's most interesting to me. The results indicate that the children who decided to wait for the second marshmallow develop into an overall more well-adjusted, successful adult than those who ate the marshmallow before the experimenter came back. The reason? Self control.

1 comment:

  1. Keri :( I love your page! The marshmellow thing was pretty cool.

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