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Descriptor English: Delay Discounting
Descriptor Spanish: Descuento por Demora
Descriptor descuento por demora
Scope note: Tendencia a subvalorar un desenlace en función de su retraso temporal o probabilidad de logro. Puede evaluarse en un paradigma psicológico que implica la elección entre recibir una recompensa inmediata más pequeña o una recompensa tardía mayor y puede utilizarse para proporcionar una medida de la conducta impulsiva.
Descriptor Portuguese: Desvalorização pelo Atraso
Descriptor French: Dévalorisation de la gratification différée
Entry term(s): Decision Making, Intertemporal
Decision-Making, Intertemporal
Deferred Gratification
Delayed Gratification
Discounting, Delay
Discounting, Temporal
Gratification, Deferred
Gratification, Delayed
Intertemporal Decision Making
Intertemporal Decision-Making
Intertemporal Preference
Intertemporal Preferences
Preference, Intertemporal
Preferences, Intertemporal
Temporal Discounting
Tree number(s): F02.463.785.373.346.700
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D065786
Scope note: The tendency to devalue an outcome as a function of its temporal delay or probability of achievement. It can be evaluated in a psychological paradigm that involves the choice between receiving a smaller immediate reward or a larger delayed reward, and may be used to provide a measure of impulsive behavior.
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
DE drug effects
ES ethics
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Public MeSH Note: 2015
History Note: 2015
Related: Impulsive Behavior MeSH
Reward MeSH
DeCS ID: 55714
Unique ID: D065786
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Date Established: 2015/01/01
Date of Entry: 2014/06/26
Revision Date: 2016/02/26
Delay Discounting - Preferred
Concept UI M0590875
Scope note The tendency to devalue an outcome as a function of its temporal delay or probability of achievement. It can be evaluated in a psychological paradigm that involves the choice between receiving a smaller immediate reward or a larger delayed reward, and may be used to provide a measure of impulsive behavior.
Preferred term Delay Discounting
Entry term(s) Decision Making, Intertemporal
Decision-Making, Intertemporal
Discounting, Delay
Discounting, Temporal
Intertemporal Decision Making
Intertemporal Decision-Making
Intertemporal Preference
Intertemporal Preferences
Preference, Intertemporal
Preferences, Intertemporal
Temporal Discounting
Delayed Gratification - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0591188
Scope note The ability to resist the temptation for an immediate reward and wait for a later reward.
Preferred term Delayed Gratification
Entry term(s) Deferred Gratification
Gratification, Deferred
Gratification, Delayed



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