Question

Subject:EC230/EEC2225 Section 1 Guiding children's behavior. But I chose psychology to be easy. I need this answer by today.

At this point in the course, you have learned several things about punishment, including the origins, how it has been used, and the negative consequences that produce long-term effects. In a 1-2 page paper, written in APA format with proper spelling and grammar, address the following: When guiding children's behavior, why should punishment not be used? What are the negative impacts of punishment on children's development? Describe one (1) specific fact about punishment that you were not aware of before. Include a paragraph reflecting on how you feel now that you know this information.

important. Be sure to use 1-2 sources and cite them properly on an APA formatted References page. The sources should help support your positions on the items above.

Answer 1

• Punishment is a term used in operant conditioning to refer to any change that occurs after a behavior that reduces the likelihood that that behavior will occur again in the future. While positive and negative reinforcement s are used to increase behaviors, punishment is focused on reducing or eliminating unwanted behaviors.
• Any behavior changes that result from punishment are often temporary. Punished behavior is likely to reappear after the punitive consequences are withdrawn.
• Perhaps the greatest drawback is the fact that punishment does not actually offer any information about more appropriate or desired behaviors. While children might be learning to not perform certain actions, they are not really learning anything about what they should be doing.
• Another thing to consider about punishment is that it can have unintended and undesirable consequences.
• For example, while approximately 75 percent of parents in the United States report spanking their children on occasion, researchers have found that this type of physical punishment may lead to antisocial behavior, aggressiveness, and delinquency among children.
• For this reason, Skinner and other psychologists suggest that any potential short-term gains from using punishment as a behavior modification tool need to be weighed again the potential long-term consequences.
• Punishment does not necessarily teach children why the rules are in place, why the rules are important or how they can act in accordance of the rules. Punishment also does not teach children to be responsible or to take into account the thoughts, needs or experiences of others.
  
• Unfortunately, punishment is only effective at deterring inappropriate behaviours in so far as it provokes fear in children.
• Children come to fear for their possessions (that they may be taken away), privileges (that they may be revoked), preferences (that they may be used against them) and even safety and well being (if they are routinely caused pain or harm in the name of punishment).
• Children do not necessarily come to understand why their behaviour was wrong, or how their behaviour negatively impacted others which I did discover about punishment when I researched about it.
• Till now I thought that punisment can somehow make children understand the consequences of their behaviour and understand that their behaviour is wrong and that it can affect others.
• But punishment doesnt provide that understanding to children rather long term consequences hinder their cognitive development as well as lead to more behavioural problems.Punishment does not teach a child anything other than that it is alright to hurt others.
• And also there is difference between discipline and punishment.Punishment doesnt discipline a child but makes them more aggressive and angry and doesnt teaches them anything positive.
• Discipline, on the other hand, always carries a lesson which helps children to understand what appropriate behaviours are and why they have become accepted in our society. Disciplining children is really a means of teaching children how to better themselves.
• Parents should strive to discipline their children in order to help them better themselves and their situations. Properly disciplined children will grow to be happy, healthy and productive members of not just the family, but society as well.