Read the original marshmallow study here:

http://www.viriya.net/jabref/cognitive_and_attentional_mechanisms_in_delay_of_gratification.pdf

Then answer the following questions:

1) What do you think the authors of the paper are suggesting?

2) Find 3-4 quotations that sparked your curiosity and tell us why these quotes stood out to you?

3) What do you notice about the voice of the paper?

4) Are the authors in disagreement with some other way of thinking? That is to say, is their a "They say" in their "I say"? Who are "they" and what is Mischel disagreeing with? What is he bifurcating from? And what does he discover in his research?

5) What do you make of all the charts and diagrams? Was it confusing for you? Why/Why not?