Dr Mischel Is Conducting an Experiment with Young Children

question 21

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 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