The biggest problem of educators and families have been disciplining their children for centuries. In order to solve this problem, numerous methods were developed. The most effective of these is reward/punishment system. However, it is also controversial whether punishment or rewarding is more powerful. It is proven that punishment results in psychological damage of a child, triggers rebellion and makes the child blaming the authority for picking on them. Furthermore, punishment is insufficient to replace a desired behavior with the undesired one. Unlike these, rewarding always motivates the student to do his best, doesn’t trigger behavioral disorders and actually teaches a student what is expected from him.
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A similar psychological pattern can be observed in dogs. Punishment, unlike the reason they were given, are, insufficient to teach dogs what they are being punished for. “Punishment will not change your pet’s behavior in the desired way. Often the animal doesn’t understand what he is being punished for and will associate other thing with this punishment than what is intended” (Becker, 1). So, the punishment, in this case, is just an activity for the owner to blow off steam. It was stated that punishment made the child feel like he’s a bad person rather than forcing the child to change behavior and the child shows a tendency to repeat the behavior yet he tries to hide it by sneaking and lying (Markham, 2). Instead of comprehension, punishment forces the child to “memorize” what not to do and promotes fear, which creates psychological problems as stated in previous subtopics. As seen in these examples, the use of punishment is in capable of teaching the subject why he got the punishment or why he shouldn’t do a behavior it can be observed both in humans and other animals like dogs. It promotes lying and sneaking, in short not performing a behavior only in conditions the controller is present. This shows that unlike motivating rewards, punishment cannot …show more content…
In his experiment, subjects were given 5-25 cents for every correct answer they gave yet; the money was taken back for every wrong answer. “It was found that if a student is given a reward, they tended to repeat the previous choice and it grew stronger as the award increased. However, if the student was punished, they tended to avoid the previous choice.” (Gray, par.21). In both cases, an effect was observed. Punishment created a higher impact in this case as losing something that you have is more effective than getting something you never had. This shows that in means of reducing a behavior, punishment is far more effective than rewarding. As stated in the examples, the subjectivity of punishments limits the applications and efficiency of the rewarding. Also, even though punishments create psychological problems, they also promote jealousy and desire which may increase work performance. Lastly, the experiment shows that in short term, punishment works better than rewarding if long term effects are
It is a proven fact that punishment …show more content…
A similar psychological pattern can be observed in dogs. Punishment, unlike the reason they were given, are, insufficient to teach dogs what they are being punished for. “Punishment will not change your pet’s behavior in the desired way. Often the animal doesn’t understand what he is being punished for and will associate other thing with this punishment than what is intended” (Becker, 1). So, the punishment, in this case, is just an activity for the owner to blow off steam. It was stated that punishment made the child feel like he’s a bad person rather than forcing the child to change behavior and the child shows a tendency to repeat the behavior yet he tries to hide it by sneaking and lying (Markham, 2). Instead of comprehension, punishment forces the child to “memorize” what not to do and promotes fear, which creates psychological problems as stated in previous subtopics. As seen in these examples, the use of punishment is in capable of teaching the subject why he got the punishment or why he shouldn’t do a behavior it can be observed both in humans and other animals like dogs. It promotes lying and sneaking, in short not performing a behavior only in conditions the controller is present. This shows that unlike motivating rewards, punishment cannot …show more content…
In his experiment, subjects were given 5-25 cents for every correct answer they gave yet; the money was taken back for every wrong answer. “It was found that if a student is given a reward, they tended to repeat the previous choice and it grew stronger as the award increased. However, if the student was punished, they tended to avoid the previous choice.” (Gray, par.21). In both cases, an effect was observed. Punishment created a higher impact in this case as losing something that you have is more effective than getting something you never had. This shows that in means of reducing a behavior, punishment is far more effective than rewarding. As stated in the examples, the subjectivity of punishments limits the applications and efficiency of the rewarding. Also, even though punishments create psychological problems, they also promote jealousy and desire which may increase work performance. Lastly, the experiment shows that in short term, punishment works better than rewarding if long term effects are