Attention in delay of gratification

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6202826
AutoresWalter Mischel (Stanford University), Ebbe B Ebbesen, Ebbe Β Ebbesen
Ano1970
Volume16
Fascículo2
Páginas329-337
Data de publicação1970-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315
EditoraAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1037/h0029815
OpenAlexW2082508182
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas158
Referências citadas12

The role of altcntional processes in voluntary delay of reward was explored by manipulating children's attention to the rewards for which they were waiting in a delay-of-gratification paradigm. Preschool children waited for a preferred but delayed reward while facing either the delayed reward, a less preferred but immediately available reward, both rewards, or no rewards. The dependent measure was the amount of they waited for the preferred outcome before forfeiting it for the sake of the less desired but immediately available one. Results contradicted predictions from psychodynamic theory and from speculations concerning self-instructions during time binding. Unexpectedly, but in accord with frustrative nonreward theory, voluntary waiting was substantially increased when subjects could not attend to rewards during the waiting period. Implications are discussed for a theory of the development of delay of gratification

Cognitive psychology · Delay of gratification · Developmental psychology · Gratification · Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology