Question

In the Marshmallow test" video, little children (3 years old - 7 years old) were put alone in a room with a single marshmallow and told that if they did not eat the marshmallow before the researcher came back into the room (in 15 minutes), they would be given a second marshmallow. Suppose you wonder whether the age of the child played a role in self-control or delayed gratification. In planning that experiment, it is crucial that you: identify a large group of enough sample size of study participants to compare wait time of younger children to older children develop strategies to distract your youngest subjects. know the exact time when the children had last eaten marshmallows measure the wait-time for the youngest participant only count the number of older children who ate the marshmallow before 15 minutes

Answer 1

In the Marshmallow test video, little Children (3 year old- 7 years old) were put alone in a room with a single Marshmallow and told that if they did not eat the marshmallow before the researcher came back into the room (in 15 minutes), they would be given a second Marshmallow. Suppose you wonder whether the age of the child played a role in self- control or delayed gratification.

In planning that experiment, it is crucial that you: (Check all that apply)

1. Identify a large group of enough sample size of study participants to compare wait time of younger children to older children
2. Develop strategies to distract your youngest subjects
3. Know the exact time when the children had last eaten marshmallows
4. Measure the wait- time for the youngest participant
5. Only count the number of older children who ate the marshmallow before 15 minutes.

In this experiment: Researchers are checking the ability of childrens self control or delayed gratification.

So from their experiment younger (3-4 years) children eats immediately, elder (5-6 years) children waits few minutes and older (near 7 years) children waits untill 15 minutes for the 2nd reward. The main purpose of this experiment is to check whether the age of the child played a role in self- control or delayed gratification.

it is crucial that you identify a large group of enough sample size of study participants to compare wait time of younger children to older children. After this we have to measure the wait time for the youngest participant, only count the number of older children who ate the marshmallow before 15 minutes and Know the exact time when the children had last eaten marshmallows. All these comes into picture after we get a large group of sample for the study.