Operant Conditioning: The Effect Of Spanking

It is often argued that spanking children will lead to the kid having socialization problems, affecting child’s behavior and functioning. People think the results of spanking will lead to “...having problems with learning and memory because of the functioning process”. Or maybe the memories of being punished will affect the child negatively, and turn into being isolated to themselves, not being very sociable, or having poor performances in school.

My goal is to work in a Residential Treatment Facility, and work with the children and adolescents. I want to get to the root of their behavioral problems. Hopefully when they are able to leave the facility they can take what they have learned from our sessions and utilize them in a positive way. They will be able to live a productive and hopefully happy life, and can achieve the dreams that they have set for themselves. Hopefully with everything they have learned they will not end up another statistic and end in prison.

On the contrary, negative punishment is a method that also contributes to weakening a behavior though it lessens or eliminates something pleasant. It involves taking away something desirable or good from an individual in order to discourage him/her from engaging in a particular behavior. For instance, one of my classmate’s phone rang in class despite being told by teachers not to bring our phones to class. Consequently, the teacher took away the phone from my classmate in order to discourage that behavior. The ethical concern that may emerge from using negative punishment is that it does not teach the victim of undesired behavior how to change his/her behavior.

Other parents believe that spanking their child will only make them listen to them more. Well, this is idea is relatively false. When a bond is broken between two people, that creates trust issues. The child will feel that they cannot trust their parent. They will feel fearful to be spanked or to be hurt in any other way. This will cause the child to actually step back from the relationship because they are unsure of their own safety. This leads to the child having aggressive expectations. The child is prepared to aggress first before they are aggressed

Positive punishment is involves presenting an aversive stimulus after a behavior as occured. Where aversive is causing avoidance of a thing, situation, or behavior by using an unpleasant or punishing stimulus, as in techniques of behavior modification. For example, during learning process in the class, Ishaan did not pay attention of what his teacher told in front of the class. Besides, he was unconsciously focused on a bird feeding it’s children outside the window. Then, Ishaan was asked by the teacher to go in front of class and get the punishment as a reminder for him for not repeat the same mistake again. This situation show that when response leads to the arrival of something aversive, and this response tends to be

I. Attention Getter: There have many opinions on how to discipline a child. One of the biggest disagreement is spanking children with some believing in it and other against it. Bennett (2015) says that even though the percent of people against spank have growth it still estimated that 70 to 90 percent of parents in the U.S. spank their children. II. Thesis: Spanking children as a punishment will not have bad effects on a children development.

When the choice is made to use spanking as a disciplinary method, children are often left with more negative psychological results than parents intend. Parental behavior is the supposed to be an example to children of what love looks

When considering the effectiveness of corporal punishment, it is important to take into consideration the effects that it has on whole populations rather than just one case. Jared Pingleton, a clinical psychologist and a minister writes in an article for Focus on the Family as an appeal for the necessity of corporal punishment, “Many parents today view themselves primarily as their child’s friend and recoil at the idea of administering discipline. Children, though, desperately need their parents’ love and affirmation as well as their authoritative guidance and correction”. (Pingleton, 2014) This way of thinking about discipline is very important regardless of whether corporal discipline is used, but the use of spanking is often the most immediately effective way of conveying this message. Pingleton suggests in his step by step guide to carrying out discipline that when a parent approaches spanking properly, it can create a lasting sense of love and respect between the parent and the child. Spanking is used around the world to influence child development, and although it has many positives, it is also necessary to examine its’ alternatives.

Yelling in public, crying over the smallest things, throwing a tantrum every five minutes; all these things have the same solution, which is spanking. People think spanking is a way to raise their children. Spanking is used among parents to teach their children a lesson if they act in a way they are not supposed to act. Some parents use spanking as a way to discipline, a way to teach the child a lesson, or it can be a natural thing in their household. The method of spanking as child rearing has caused some controversy about whether spanking negatively influence a child’s future behaviors and actions. The practice of spanking can later reflect their violent behavior as they get older. Children can easily misunderstand the message behind spanking and unknowingly use it the same way as their parents. Children can, therefore, use the method of spanking toward their new upcoming urge for violence or bad behavior. All of their future actions are now reflecting what they learned in their few years as a baby; they have learned the pain and method of spanking. It is only natural for them to use what they learned in their future. While the method of spanking for child rearing is used among many families, it is important to know whether this practice of spanking is effective in a beneficial way or if it is a definite way to create a child who has a violent behavior. It is better to know whether spanking is favorable in a child’s rearing years, rather than to use the

The first claim this popular article makes is that kids who are spanked are less emotionally healthy than those who aren’t and that kids who were spanked tend to behave worse as time progresses. “What if we were spanked when we were young and turned out fine?”, studies apparently show that you would be emotionally healthier if you weren’t. A study performed by MacKenzie et al., (2015) show that spanking at ages early as the age of nine showed negative consequences through the age of nine into young adulthood. This means that with factors controlled most people who have been physically punished from an early age will demonstrate a suboptimal social behavior compared to their

Behaviorism provides insight into how I was learning in that moment. Operant conditioning, or the rewarding of part of a desired behavior, was present (Standridge, 2002). Positive punishment is one of the four quadrants associated with operant conditioning where something is added to decrease an undesired behavior (Standridge). The vice principal was going to charge me with insubordination to make sure I understood the severity of being disrespectful to authority. This is commonly used in education settings to reduce unfavorable behaviors in students.

The effects of spanking are seen in children being antisocial and more aggressive. As children sees it, spanking is one way to get something that you want, like obedience asked by parents from their children.

Classical conditioning can be explained through humans best kept secret; urinating in the shower. Though many deny, the sound of running water typically elicits the natural response to urinate. After awhile, it is common to become conditioned to associate a shower (without the water on) with the urge to urinate. Thus, classical conditioning is a learned association between a stimulus (any sight, smell, sound, taste, or touch (like the sound of running water)), and a neutral stimulus (like the shower) that triggers the same response (the urge to urinate).

First of all, I think spanking should not happen on a regular basis because it can create fear from the child toward their parents. For example, if the parent is always hitting the child with any hard objects, which would make the child, scare to come near their parents. I think when people spank the child; it should only be for the child best interest, not to harm them in any way. Secondly when spanking is done constantly; it can cause the child to develop violent behavior as they get older. They could develop mental or neurological problems and it could persist into something more severe. Once the child reaches teenager or young adult they probably think it’s ok to hit someone. I know a friend who has been abused at home and as she got older she would always fight with her boyfriend. She could never go a day without physically fighting with him. The abuse happens so often that they split up and until this day she is alone. Hitting the child repeatedly can also create psychological problems. When they get older, they probably can’t trust anyone or have any long conversation with the significant other because their brain has been damaged. They might even have to be on medication just to be calm. Once they are taking medication for mental issues, this can lead to depression which can cause them to commit suicide. This is why I think spanking continuously can affect the child in the long

Spanking is an example of positive punishment, while some disagree many believe it’s an acceptable form of discipline. I feel it’s necessary to start by pointing out the definitions of both Spanking and Physical Abuse. Spanking is “hitting a child with an open hand on the buttocks or extremities with the intent to discipline without leaving a bruise or causing physical harm”. Physical Abuse is “corporal punishment that is harsh and excessive, involves the use of objects (e.g., belts, paddles), and causes or has the potential to cause physical harm”. Personally, I agree with spanking Because, children desire some form of structure, some form of right and wrong. Without some type of punishment, without some form of consequences, how are children