Dr Mischel Is Conducting an Experiment with Young Children

question 93

Multiple Choice

Dr. Mischel is conducting an experiment with young children. He tells each child that they have a choice to make: They can have a cookie right now, OR they can wait ten minutes and get two cookies. Dr. Mischel appears to be measuring ____.

• A)the children's planning fallacy
• B)the children's levels of abstract decision making
• C)whether the children are incremental theorists or entity theorists
• D)the children's capacity to delay gratification

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Definitions:

Ego

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the personality that mediates between external reality and inner demands of the id and superego.

Correlation Coefficient

A number ranging from -1.00 to +1.00 that expresses the direction (positive or negative) and strength of the relationship between two variables.

Covariance Coefficient

A statistical measure that indicates the extent to which two variables change together; it can be positive, negative, or zero.

Maximum-Likelihood Coefficient

A statistical measure that estimates the parameters of a model to maximize the likelihood of fitting the model to a given set of data.