4V Good Things Come to Those Who Wait

Delayed gratification is a word I was unaware of until this week. While watching a video on the marshmallow study, Joachim de Posada talked about and explained what delayed gratification was all about. In the video Joachim tested 4-5 year olds on if they had the ability to delay gratification. They would be placed in a room alone and the instructor would place a marshmallow in front of them and explained if they waited 15 minutes they would be reward with a second marshmallow.  In this process, delayed gratification means the ability to wait in order to obtain something that one wants. If these 4-5 year olds waiting the duration of the 15 minutes they had the ability to delay gratification and would be more likely to be successful later in life than those children who ate the marshmallow. I would have never thought that having a skill such as waiting 15 minutes for a marshmallow could predict future success in children.

Each week in my media in everyday life class, we learn and discuss new vocabulary words from the assigned chapter reading. This week two of the words we learned was popular culture and mainstream culture. Popular culture is the products of a culture that are owned and produced by businesses for the purpose of making a profit. Mainstream culture is the core beliefs, values, and behaviors that have been part of the American dialogue since the 1600s and that have been accepted by the majority of Americans. These two words are important to know for my class this past week because we have been discussion how persuasive message affect the culture. Also understanding these words will help make understanding the rest of the material easier because I already have a good idea what of popular culture and mainstream culture means.