Decaying Gratification

When I think about the past there are a lot of things that I wish I had done. Whether it be, standing up for myself, defending myself, gone zip lining, taken back some of the things I said or tried harder. It is important to not think about regrets too much because in fifty years any of the mistakes you've made aren't going to matter. Even if you think that it is the biggest mistake ever, nobody will remember it in fifty years. It is still important to make mistakes and have regrets because in the long run you’ll have nothing to look back and laugh about, or give valuable lessons to other people

The actions made in the past can determine the course of your life. Even the choices that weren't your own.

In the experiment group, children were asked to postpone their desire to eat marshmallow for ten minutes, but they were notified how much time left to hold their

As people always say, “Hindsight is 20/20”, but if we would look forward in time and plan instead of making gut decisions, making better decisions and choices would definitely be easier to do. Robert Frost said it best in his poem, “The Road Not Taken”, when he said, “Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim” (Frost). This shows that when Frost got to a fork in the road, he sat down and evaluated both options before making a selection. He looked at the path on the left and then the path on the right so he would know exactly which choice to make and how that choice would work for him. This applies to everybody. When there is a big choice to be made, we need to evaluate every option and then look into the future to see how the options will benefit us later. If at the time a choice seems perfect, but there is no future benefit, why make that choice? If everybody has a common goal to be the best person that they can be and to be as successful as they can in life, the choice that is made needs to be a thirty day or thirty year decision, not a thirty second decision.

Do you think that having the character trait of delaying gratification is natural or can you develop this trait. Another person at the University of Rochester also did the marshmallow experiment but they added a twist. The twist was used to find out what influences your ability to delay gratification. They decided to separate the kids into two groups. The first group was given some crayons and was told they would get some better ones but they didn't. Also the first group was given a sticker and they were told they would be given a better one but they didn't get it. The second group was also given some crayons and a sticker but they did get a better sticker and some more crayons. By doing this in the marshmallow experiment the kids in the first group could not wait to eat it. The kids in the second group was able to wait to eat the marshmallow because they knew they could wait because of the crayons and stickers. Finally because of this experiment they learned that you can acquire the ability to delay gratification by what is happening around you. As you can see when you are able to delay gratification you are teaching your brain that it is worth it to delay gratification and that you have the ability to

The motto I like to live up to is; Things happen, and that’s life. Knowing this I never really have a solid idea of my future. Of course I like to imagine my future and what college I would go to, or what my apartment would look like, or even who I might end up with. But one tiny thing could change a big aspect of life, and I’m okay with that. You definity control your life and future even if you aren’t aware of your actions affecting it.

How are humans capable to control themselves and their urges? This question has psy-chologists wondering for centuries. How do we decide if we want to spend our money on something or rather save it to spend it later on something else? What makes us wait for a re-ward rather than receiving instant gratification? Several studies have been conducted on these questions, looking for answers on self-control. In my research, I want to see if there is a dif-ference between introverted and extroverted people in choosing delayed gratification. My hypotheses is that the more introversion a human shows the more likely they choose delayed gratification.

If there are two bunches of grapes in front of you? One bunch of the grape is not sweet compared to the other one. Which bunch of grape are you going to eat first? The first option is to eat the fresh one. If you choose to eat the fresh one first, which means you can eat the tasty one as soon as possible.

Throughout the preparation for my research project, I came to realize that the psychological gratification that stems from researching promising ideas, making novel discoveries and, above all, disseminating knowledge is unparalleled. My eagerness and dedication to the field of Prosthodontics made my willingness for sharing knowledge a life purpose. Thus, one of my main professional goals is to further evolve in research field, as I believe research provides the means to move our specialty forward and ultimately improve our patients’ care.

Live Without Regret: You go through many experiences in your life- some joyful, some painful, and some confusing- but no matter what happens, regret nothing. Everything you persevere through teaches you a valuable lesson- you have the choice to live with fear or love.

Too often we get bogged down in our past, and in memories of events that we think define us and restrict us from moving forward. The truth is that we can decide today who we want to be. We may have some baggage, and we may have future dreams, but today is the only day where we can define who we are and what direction we want our lives to go.

The willingness to delay gratification has been studied widely as it predicts social outcomes such as substance abuse or obesity. Many researchers have focused on cognitive control, which is considered to have a major influence on the individuals’ abilities to delay gratification. However, in addition to cognitive control, social trust also affects the delay of gratification since delaying gratification will make sense only if a person is sure that the reward will actually be given. In the present study, Michaelson and Munakata (2016) therefore, tested the influence of social trust on delaying gratification of children by manipulating trust that is unrelated to reward expectation.

A great deal of students don’t develop effective study habits and this ultimately results in feeling a decreased sense of self-esteem, stress, disorganisation, poor academic success, and a negative sense of self-efficacy which is linked to poor self-control (Pychyl & Dann, 2010). This is primarily caused by procrastinating. Procrastination is delaying an activity that possesses important benefits for us in the long-term but is voluntarily delayed in the short-term because of short-term impulsive temptations which offer greater immediate rewards (Steel, 2007). I chose to modify this problematic target behaviour because it was where I exercised poor self-control.

Notice, whenever you tell yourself you are not going to eat that piece of chocolate or biscuit. It becomes all you can think about? And willpower will get you nowhere.

What mass communication professionals recognize as the uses and gratifications (U&G) approach is recognized broadly as a subtradition of media effects research. As an active-audience approach, this theory presented innovated perspectives to evaluating mass media. With technological advances changing the mass media world each year, U&G offers a flexible approach to analyzing how and why and audience uses media. Strengths and weaknesses are proposed in the paper and an overall evaluation of the theory is offered.