What is the research design of the study?
Abstract
To cooperate effectively, both in small-scale interactions and large-scale collective-action problems, people frequently have to delay gratification (i.e., resist short-term temptations in favor of joint long-term goals). Although delay-of- gratification skills are commonly considered critical in children’s social-cognitive development, they have rarely been studied in the context of cooperative decision-making. In the current study, we therefore presented pairs of children (N = 207 individuals) with a modified version of the famous marshmallow test, in which children’s outcomes were interdependently linked such that the children were rewarded only if both members of the pair delayed gratification. Children from two highly diverse cultures (Germany and Kenya) performed substantially better than they did on a standard version of the test, suggesting that children are more willing to delay gratification for cooperative than for individual goals. The results indicate that from early in life, human children are psychologically equipped to respond to social interdependencies in ways that facilitate cooperative success.
What is the research design of the study?
A. Is it a Scientific Observation, Experiment, or Survey? Why?
B. Is it Quantitative or Qualitative Research? Why?
C. Is it Cross-Sectional, Longitudinal, or Cross-Sequential? Why?
Design of a study represents the type of the study. It also explains the subordinate types . From design of study we get to know all properties of the collected data and we get to know about the method of collection if possible.
A. When we gather knowledge using scientific tools, the observation is called Scientific Observation.
When we use scientific procedure to know a outcome or prove a known fact, that is called Experiment.
A Survey is a method by which we collect information from a group by phone, mail, questionnaire etc.
It is a Survey. Because the sample is of size 207 i.e. 207 number of children who follow the Marshmallow test to get the outcome desired. The children would be rewarded only if both members of the pair delayed gratification. The outcomes are collected by a specific test.
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