January 14, 200422 yr What does punishment have to do with making people responsible? discuss. I'm not sure what you mean. Please explain.
January 14, 200422 yr punishment is probably supposed to be done as a deterrant (sp) for various bad things. it doesnt directly have anything to do with 'responsibility' but punishment does indirectly...
January 14, 200422 yr It make you think twice about doing it again.The reason why it seem like it doesn't work is because some people just don't have a conscious.
January 14, 200422 yr and because 'jail' often is full of things like tv, weight rooms, sports, computers now, etc. what more could they want in the real world?
January 14, 200422 yr Author What does punishment have to do with making people responsible? discuss. I'm not sure what you mean. Please explain. i cant really explain it....
January 14, 200422 yr and because 'jail' often is full of things like tv, weight rooms, sports, computers now, etc. what more could they want in the real world? Women...
January 14, 200422 yr The point of punishment is to condition us to do things that avoid punishment. According to Skinner, experiencing punishment would condition us to avoid actions that will result in punishment. Social cognitive camp beleives by observing the existence of punishment we are conditioned to avoid it. I think this should answer it. OT: The prison system in this country is crazy. We should have all these prisoners drilling holes into mountains to hide our nuclear waste...
January 15, 200422 yr Here is some more on conditioning, psychology, and punishment after a quick search on google: http://wps.prenhall.com/chet_eggen_educati...885312-,00.html and The Social Cognitive Approach to Personality The social cognitive approach to personality grew out of a recognition that behaviorism failed to capture some of the most important aspects of human behavior. In particular, the social cognitive approach focused on the role of expectations, goals, and idiosyncratic interpretations in shaping the effect of rewards and punishments on behavior. Further, it argued that people learned how to behave not only from their personal experience with reinforcement and punishment, but also from talking to other people and from watching the consequences of others' behaviors. One of the most influential social cognitive theorists was (and is) Albert Bandura. In this section, we first summarize the assumptions of the social cognitive approach to personality (also known as social learning theory). We then briefly discuss one of the core concepts of Bandura's approach to human behavior: self-efficacy. 2.1 Basic Assumptions of Social Cognitive Approach The social cognitive approach to personality focuses on the multiple ways in which concrete behaviors can be changed. One of these ways is the sole focus of behaviorism: individual experiences shaped by reward and punishment. However, social modeling also has an important effect on human behavior. In social modeling, one person watches another person give a particular response in a situation and learns about the consequences of that response. To the extent that the observer identifies with the modeler, he will decide to give the same response if he finds himself in a similar situation in the future (if the consequence was positive) or will avoid that response (if the consequence was negative). Another important assumption of social cognitive theory is that each person's idiosyncratic way of interpreting the world, and his or her particular goals and expectations, will modulate the way that a particular reinforcer or punisher will affect his or her behavior. For instance, a person for whom making money is not an important goal will not work for it, despite the fact that it is associated with many primary reinforcers. Additionally, a single person will differ from situation to situation depending on the extent to which any given reinforcer or punisher is important to him or her. Thus, the effects of rewards and punishments are both situation- and person- specific. 2.2 Self-Efficacy Self-efficacy refers to one's belief in one's ability to succeed at a particular task. Albert Bandura's research has shown that simply asking someone how confident they are that they can succeed at a particular task helps enormously in predicting how well the person will perform at that task--even if the person has never done the task in the past and has no basis on which to be confident. Bandura showed that altering a person's self- efficacy can sometimes be the best way to improve his or her performance. For instance, snake phobics who had difficulty even remaining in the same room with a snake were able to pick up and hold the snake after a two-hour session of exposure therapy. The best predictor of the success of the therapy was the extent to which it improved the snake phobic's sense of self-efficacy. How can self-efficacy be changed? By all of the means mentioned above: personal experience, social modeling, and changes in the person's goals and expectations. I highly believe in conditioning. No one will do anything they truly think will punish them and we do things that make us happy. We do as much as we can get away with. So how does punishment fit in? It is mere conditioning. If every time you said a curse word you were electrically shocked in a horrible fashion, your body would associate cursing with pain, and so you will stop. Punishment leads to responsibility? Not really, it just conditions us to avoid doing something we openly think will lead to that end. That's why we have to condition in a responsible manner. People must feel that good deeds lead to rewards, so they will act in a matter that is positive because they associate good deeds with good feeling. If a child acts well, encourage her/him and make the kid feel happy. If the kid screws up, when approprate you have to use punishment. Our minds run like computers, thus conditioning is key. I really want to read Walden II from Skinner, its all about this.
January 15, 200422 yr What does punishment have to do with making people responsible? discuss. I'm not sure what you mean. Please explain. he means plz help him with his term paper lol
January 15, 200422 yr Author yea, thats me... I need help on my term paper go away a**hole it was a question posed today in my criminal justice class and i just wanted some opinions on it again go away a**hole
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