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ENG 150 Summary Writing Worksheet PART 1: IMRAD Structure Complete the following tasks for the Rational Snacking article. Introduction “The study demonstrates children also use their rational decision- making abilities in a domain of behavioral inhibition: a sustained delay-of-gratification task.” “When asked to resist the temptation of an immediately available low-value reward to obtain one of high-value after a temporal delay, 75% of children failed to do so, succumbing to their desire after an average of 5.72 min. The cause of these apparent failures of rationality, however, is not fully understood. While children’s failures to wait are likely the result of a combination of many genetic and environmental variables, two potentially important factors are self-control capacity and established beliefs.” Methods Participant: Twenty-eight caretakers volunteered their children (ages 3;6 – 5;10) for the study. Art project task: For choice 1 the child could either use worn-out crayons or hold off until fresh art supplies arrive. Choice 2 offered the youngster the option of using one modest sticker or delaying the usage of a new set of superior stickers. Marshmallow task: You can eat this one marshmallow right now. Or—if you can wait for me to go get more marshmallows from the other room—you can have two marshmallows to eat instead. Results • Children in the unreliable condition waited without eating for a mean duration of 3 min and 2 s (M=181.57s). • Children in the reliable condition waited 12 min and 2 s (M=722.43s) • Thus, children in the unreliable condition waited significantly less than those in the reliable condition.
ENG 150 Summary Writing Worksheet Analysis “The study indicates that young children’s performance on sustained delay-of gratification tasks can be strongly influenced by rational decision-making processes.” Discussion “If self-control capacity differences were the primary causal mechanism implicated in children’s wait-times, then information about the reliability of the environment should not have affected them. If deficiencies in self-control caused children to eat treats early, then one would expect such deficiencies to be present in the reliable condition as well as in the unreliable condition. The effect we observed is consistent with converging evidence that young children are sensitive to uncertainty about future rewards (Fawcett et al., 2012; Mahrer, 1956; McGuire & Kable, 2012).” “The data indicates that it is premature to conclude that most of the observed variance—and the longitudinal correlation between wait-times and later life outcomes—is due to differences in individuals’ self-control capacities. Rather, an unreliable worldview, in addition to self-control, may be causally related to later life outcomes, as already suggested by an existing body of evidence (e.g.,Barnes & Farrell, 1992; Smyke, Dumitrescu, & Zeanah, 2002)” Summary Compose a 200 - 300 word summary of the article. Be sure to introduce the authors, date, and title of the study within your summary. This will help you avoid plagiarism. Be sure to accurately summarize. You may also paraphrase and quote, but be sure to add page numbers after the words or phrases you take from the article if you paraphrase or quote. Consider this an opportunity to practice writing good summaries of scientific studies, which you will be required to do in your Annotated Bibliography submission. In January of 2013, Celeste Kidda, Holly Palmeri, and Richard N. Aslin, from the University of Rochester (Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science), published their study on how young children apply their decision-making abilities in a delay of gratification task.
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