The Marshmallow Experiments classmates post response

Please respond to the following post made by my classmate:

The marshmallow experiment began in the late 1960s and into the early 1970s. It began with Walter Mischels studies involving young children and identifying their level of self control at a young age through a marshmallow experiment. The clear conclusion was that as early as age 5, there are marked differences among individuals in self-control, with some being already capable of significant self-restraint (Hay and Meldrum, pg 51). As noted in Mischels study, several of the children redirected themselves from the temptation of the marshmallow in various ways. In the Youtube video I watched I observed the children use different tactics of redirection, some would play with the marshmallow, lick the marshmallow or simply just avoid looking at the marshmallow. The ability to resist the temptation of a marshmallow as a child remarkably predicts behavioral outcomes later in life (Hay and Meldrum, pg 52). It is the understanding that the children who waited for long periods during the experiment, exceled and performed well in their everyday lives in their teenage years. Due to having a high self control at a young age, it appears that it remains with them in their future adult years and beyond. Most notably, Mischel and his colleagues found that those who had waited longest as a 4 or 5 year old were more likely at age 16 to express their ideas well in language, to use and respond to reason, and to think ahead and concentrate. (Hay and Meldrum, pg 52)