“…The culturally deprived child tends to seek immediate rather than delayed gratification; his main concern is the &dquo;here and now,&dquo; with little consideration for future endeavors (LeShan, 1952;Lewis, 1961Lewis, , 1966Passow & Elliott, 1968;Strauss, 1962;Webster, 1966). Poverty children show higher levels of performance for concrete rewards than for the more abstract reinforcement of social praise; the opposite is evident for children of the middle class (Terrell, Durkin, & Wesley, 1959;Zigler & deLabry, 1962).…”