Research Methods

Watch the following 3-minute YouTube Video depicting The Marshmallow Test – an observational study about delayed gratification. Design an observational study based on the data collected in the video.
A. Identify your conceptual variable of interest from this video — what is the concept you want to code for?
B. Provide an operational definition for your conceptual variable. Remember that an operationalization is a very specific description of what you will be observing.
C. Based on your operational definition, how will you code participants? Rate two of the participants using your coding system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX_oy9614HQ