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Casey Et Al - Behavioural and Neural correlates of delay of gratification
Casey Et Al - Behavioural and Neural correlates of delay of gratification
Background
Biological Psychology, regions of the brain
Behavioural and neural refers to the behaviour and brain activity of a stimulus (In this case the stimulus was the happy and sad faces in the go-nogo task)
Both things happened when participants engaged in delaying gratification, experiment 2 shows the brain regions
Previous research - the marshmallow test (The ability to act to delay a reward to gain a better reward)
Concerned with what our brain is upto when we delay rewards
The Ventral Striatum
Responsible for reward and linked to not wanting to delay gratification
The Inferior Frontal Gyrus
This is responsible with minimising risk taking
Prefrontal Cortex
Procedure
The go-nogo tasks
A cognitive task in which paticipants are giving people particular instructions to react in a certain way to particular stimulus . In grant this was to not click when you see a smiling face
Aims - to build upon previous research to see if delay of gratification could predict sensitivity to alluring social cues and their impulse controls
59 participants who were identified as high and low delayers consented to take part in the hot and cool task
Method and Design
Quasi Experiment, Longitudinal as it happened over many years
(High or Low Delayers)
Independent Measures Design
Findings
