Billy is offered five M&Ms and is told that if he can wait and not eat these M&Ms for ten minutes, he can have 15 M&Ms. Unfortunately, after waiting for only a couple of minutes, the M&Ms start to look too delicious, so Billy goes ahead and eats them. Based on this example, psychologists would most likely say that Billy has yet to learn:

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Billy's inability to wait for the larger reward of 15 M&Ms indicates he has not yet learned delay of gratification, which is the ability to resist the temptation of an immediate reward in preference for a later, often larger, reward.

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