Psychology 373sc - Research Seminar in Personality: Self-Control
Sem-Personality: Self-Control
Fall
2021
01
4.00
Phil Peake
W 1:20 PM - 4:00 PM
Smith College
PSY-373sc-01-202201
ppeake@smith.edu
In this course, we will do all the major components of conducting a research exploration in the field of Personality Psychology. Our focus for this semester will be the study of self-control. More specifically, we will examine and design research addressing delay of gratification as one adaptive expression of self-control. To do this, we will work with an archival data set that is housed here at Smith, and contains observations of participants who were observed on a delay of gratification task as preschoolers. One of our objectives will be to design follow-up assessments for administrations to the participants in this work who are now in their mid-50’s. In addition, with some good fortune, we will collectively design and conduct an experiment to examine some aspect of delay of gratification in current preschool children. Prerequisites: PSY 270 or 271, and permission of instructor.