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Nature nurture

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Nature
We are born low or high delayers and we stay like
Nurture
at age of 4, environment had already impacted ppl eg rewards etc - they can have training programmes to change them

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Free will determinism

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Determinism
Born pre programmed with brain differences that mean some ppl are low delayers so they are vulnerable to health problems later in life

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Psychology as a science

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Controlled lab exp so meets scientific criteria

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Link to area

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Investigating whether specific regions of our brain impact our ability to resist
Specifically, shows our biology has important role in resisting gratification

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Link to theme

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Revealed 2 regions of brain which impact us

Provided evidence for cool and hot systems

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Changing understanding of theme

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Adds to Sperrys research by telling us about the role that other regions can play and tells us a diff way to look at our brain fmri scans

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Changes understanding of diversity

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Doesn’t as both studied brain structure in America
However, Casey studied normal brains which confirmed there are individual differences in brain structure of general population

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Usefulness

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Predictions about people’s self control is useful

High delayer linked to to being protected against physical, and mental health problems