1. Seeing how 4 year olds were put into a room with marshmallows, how can you test an experiment like this with college kids?
2. Do people with delayed gratification respond better with extrinsic motivation?
Answer to #1.
The article with the 4 year olds who were put into a room were told that if they could wait 15 minutes without eating the marshmallow that they will be rewarded with a second one. This was a test to see how they processed and used delayed gratification. In this article it says "Children who are able to pass the marshmallow test enjoy greater success as adults." Now, this is said about 4 year olds who will either grow up to have decent SAT scores, good relationships with their teachers, and have a nice job, or they could have the complete opposite and not be successful. If we were test this on college students without using marshmallows, then what it would be? Well, say if you are in a classroom, and the teacher says you will receive an A+ for the day on participation and a quiz grade if you don't use or even have your cell-phone out the whole class time. Now, in my opinion that is so worth it. I do not have a problem with not having my cell-phone out the whole time especially if you will receive a grade like that for the day. It will be worth it in the long run because is having your cell phone and using it during class going to help you learn the material that is being taught? No. Therefore, either way you are being distracted by it. A cell phone is a distraction.
In school, or in any situation you are using the process of Metacognition- thinking about thinking. Some students will think about using there cellphone but then distract themselves by thinking of something else. You would be thinking about using it but really thinking about you thinking about. (This sounds and gets confusing) That is the way I understand the process of Metacognition though. Some students will go through with not using their cellphone, while others need to be on it. Sometimes it's just the way it is and all kids are different. So does this mean the people who don't use their cellphone during class will be more successful in the future? I honestly do not know the answer to that because some kids may not have any cellphones and if they did would they use it? Leaves us curious and thinking...
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/18/090518fa_fact_lehrer
Answer to #2
I believe that people who respond better to delayed gratification will most likely respond better with extrinsic motivation. People who have extrinsic motivation know how to achieve the award and have good behavior, and good efforts. It is thinking about the reward outside of you. However Intrinsic motivation is internal motivation which is self satisfaction, self esteem, having confidence. Either motivation is a very well motivation to have, but I believe that people with delayed gratification will be an extrinsic motivator rather than an intrinsic one. But then again there could be many people who respond with intrinsic also, or maybe even both.
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