kaji
yang
dijalankan
yang
dipanngil
The premise is simple: You can eat one marshmallow now or, if you can wait,
you get to eat two marshmallows later.
Children were brought into a barren room, empty of any distractions except a
table upon which sat a very tempting treat: the marshmallows. The children
were given the choice of eating one marshmallow whenever they wanted or,
if they could hold out until the adult instructing them returned to the room
i.e. 15 minutes, they were rewarded with the two marshmallows. This conflict
was crucial, because without it, you don't have a situation for testing selfcontrol."
Mischel tracked these children down 50 years later, and what did
he find?
Oh, we found a great deal. We found to our surprise when they were about
13, 14, 15 years old, that the ones who had waited longer on the
marshmallow test were doing better in school, were doing better socially
and were doing better on SAT scores by quite a bit. And we became very
interested in why are they we seeing these differences? What's that
really all about? And we began to pursue them, really, over the years, and
approximately every 10 or 12 years, did a follow-up.
Now, when you kept tracking them, did that this difference you
saw 10 years later, the kids who managed to have delayed
gratification were doing better. Was it true 20 years later? Was it
true 30 years later? Was it true 40 years later?
Mischel: What happens is that the ones who remain consistently high in
self-control over the years, as opposed to the ones who remain
consistently low in self-control over the years form two quite different life
trajectories that are distinctly different.