In their article, “Delay of Gratification in Children”, Walter Mischel et al. demonstrate a connection between childhood self-control behaviour and long-term cognitive effects. Whereas preteen-aged children typically display a higher degree of awareness of the eventual benefits of their self-control, Mischel's team notes that pre-school aged children exhibit a lack of awareness in effective self-control in goal-directed waiting tasks. In deed, the team notes a correlation between childhood abilities to self-control their behaviour and future Scholastic Aptitude Test results. The behaviour of pre-school aged children was examined through a series of experiments, whereupon subjects were asked to endure period of time, during which they must restrain
