Introduction
What is reward and punishment
- Reward is the given of thing in recognition for one’s service or achievement according to oxford dictionary.
- Bitensky(2006))showed that Punishment is the use of physical force with intention to cause bodily pain in order to correct a child’s behaviour.
- Durrant (2005) .Corporal Punishment:Prevelance ,Predictors and Complications or Child Behaviour and Development iN S .N Hart (E.D) Eliminating Corporal Punishment: The Way Forward To a Constructive Child Discipline.49-90
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- Durrant (2005) showed that reward and punishment are being used these days by the parents and educators in order to educate the children for them to learn …show more content…
These symptoms are associated with lower IQ.
Research conducted by Alfie Kohn (2001) suggests that reward does not develop continued performance of a rewarded behaviour or help one develop a continued interest in a particular activity
E why I choose this topic
Because reward and punishment is very common nowadays. The misuse of reward and punishment can affect a child’s future.
thesis statement
Reward and punishment will bring negative effects to children’s behaviour because it will affect their academics, relationship with people and emotional development.
ii) background
- Behaviour is how a person react and act to a certain situation.
John B Watson suggested behaviourism, in summary it means “do this and you’ll get that”. This law of effect states that behaviour leading to a positive consequence will be repeated.
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The method parents and educators teach the children will affect their …show more content…
People become materialistic, because they do a task in order to get reward.
Punishment will affect relationship.
Argument 3
-emotional development
In a research article by Afifi et al. (2006), Aucoin et al 2006, Bender et al 2007, Colder et al 1997, Eamon (2001) , Larzelere(2000), MacMillian et al. (1999), Nelson et al. (2006), Smith (2004)
Children who are being punished will face psychological problems such as depression, anxiety , anger ,humiliation, guilt and sadness.
Larzelere &Kuhn (2005, as cited in Introduction to Psychology, 2014, P.202) noted that punishment leads to antisocial and low self-esteem.
- Furthermore, punishment involves the suppression of a behaviour rather that the strengthening of it as in reinforcement (Lefrancois, 2006). http://kristinhricko.weebly.com/reinforcement-and-punishment.html -Straus (1999) stated that mental health problem occur is related to the physical punishment
-Gershoff (2002a) reviewed 12 studies of punishment and mental health in childhood. The findings of these mental health problems in children is related to the use of punishment on them.
-low self esteem was significantly related to low level of inductiveness and high level of love