Mischel and Mischel's (1987) famous marshmallow task, in which children were given a choice to either eat one marshmallow immediately or wait for the chance to get a second marshmallow, represents a type of _______, which measures children's ability to forgo an immediate, smaller reward for a larger reward later.

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The marshmallow task is a classic example of a delay of gratification task, which assesses the ability to resist the temptation of an immediate reward in preference for a later, often larger, reward.

Mischel and Mischel's (1987) Famous Marshmallow Task, in Which Children