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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Delay of gratification"”.
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Ego Depletion and Delay of Gratification
… subtraction task (cognitive processing) in front of or in the absence of a video camera (social processing). Participants then completed a delay-of-gratification task where they either chose the immediate, small reward of 1 research participation credit or waited for a larger amount of credit. …
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Impulsive buying and delay of gratification among adults with ADHD
… immediate rewards and reduced ability to delay them, they may be more likely to experience financial difficulties. Studies show that adults with ADHD have more difficulties allocating and saving funds, and paying their bills on time, compared to control groups. Aims: In the present study …
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The effect of internal and external distractors on self-imposed delay of gratification
The purpose of this study was to determine under which of several conditions preschool children would delay gratification longer given the choice between a smaller immediate, and a larger delayed reward in a non-instrumental paradigm.Prior to the experiment 70 subjects from a pool of 81 subjects …
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The relationship between time estimation and an individual's ability to delay gratification
… ability to accurately estimate the passage of time and his or her ability to delay gratification. In this study, undergraduate students were asked to estimate time intervals using a time estimation computer program and to provide a verbal estimation of time intervals. These scores were then …
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Prevailing Attitudes Toward Work and The Relationship Between Religious Orientation and Work Ethic Dimensions
… Leisure, Centrality to Work, Wasted time and Delay of Gratification. Religiosity was presented from the point of view of its expressions relating to human society and its members' practical life including occupation, economy and work rather than the essence of the religion. Results indicated …
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External responsiveness to food and nonfood items among obese and nonobese children of two ages
… a preference between an immediate smaller and a delayed larger choice. When presented with food items, obese subjects were less able than the nonobese to delay an immediate smaller gratification to maximize reward magnitude. No significant differences were found between obese and nonobese …
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Future-Oriented Cognition during Preschool Years: Cognitive Correlates and Cultural Contrast
… future-oriented cognition. The development of future-oriented cognition undergoes critical changes during the preschool period and an emerging theme in developmental psychology is to elucidate its cognitive correlates. A significant oversight, however, is that the existing body of literature …
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Antecedents and Continuity of Compliance in Preschoolers
… has been implicated in the development of successful socialization. Difficulty self-regulating has led to negative outcomes in areas such as academic success and mental health, and a number of possible contributors, such as temperament, maternal sensitivity and attachment, have been …
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An Assessment of School Adjustment in Head Start Children
The purpose of the current study was to pilot test measures of cognitive-linguistic achievement and socioemotional competence to create an all encompassing model of school adjustment in a sample of Head Start children (N = 36). Past research examining school adjustment in low-income children has …
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The Role of Maternal Psychological Distress on Neurobehavioural Disinhibition among Preschoolers Exposed Prenatally to Methamphetamine
… functioning. Beyond the direct biological impact of MA exposure, maternal drug use may affect the child indirectly through the negative lifestyle and psychological factors associated with drug use. Of particular concern is the evidence that links drug dependence and maternal psychological distress …
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Cognitive predictors of aggression, prosocial behaviour and peer acceptance across early childhood: the role of cool and hot executive function and theory of mind
Executive function (EF) and theory of mind (ToM) have been linked to children’s social outcomes, including aggression, prosocial behaviour and peer acceptance. However, understanding of these relations is limited by the focus of research on broad behaviour categories and on cool-cognitive EF …
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Novel ways to measure future-oriented cognition: Using parent-report measures and open-ended responses to explore young children’s future thinking development
Future-oriented cognition encompasses a set of key abilities that children must develop for successful functioning in daily life including, saving, prospective memory, episodic foresight, planning, and delay of gratification. These future thinking abilities are supported by memory systems (e.g., …