Psychologist Humor

This post has absolutely nothing to do with the goal of this blog, so consider yourselves duely warned.

The last biopsychology class of the summer officially occurred today, bringing with it a bittersweet mixture of joy and sadness. Great class, lots o' stress. The study guide for the final consists of 46 questions/points to memorize. And they ain't "What is the organ in your skull called?" or "What color is the gray matter in the brain?"
Today, the lecture covered the neuroscience behind various psychological disorders, including ADHD. And whenever a professor talks about the biopsychology of ADHD, he/she must mention the famous Marshmallow Experiment. Bear with me for a brief explanation. I promise, it's worth it. A guy named Walter Mischel originally performed a study that presented children with a marshmallow and a set of directions that went something like, "Here is one marshmallow. you can eat it now, or you can wait til I come back, and then I will give you a second marshmallow." Basically, the study was longitudinal (followed the children for many decades) and found that the kids who waited for the second marshmallow had less likelihoods of developing ADHD, had higher GPA's, were more likely to go to college, less likely to go to jail, etc. etc. Today, our professor showed us a more recent version of this experiment.

And now for qhat might quite possibily be the cutest of all psychological experiments: THE MARSHMALLOW EXPERIMENT.