Saturday, November 20, 2010

How do punishments impact your learning here in school?

In school, most students react to punishments given by the school that impacts our learning.  For most students, when a punishment is given, negative or positive, a student will hopefully not perform this action again.  Positive punishment occurs when someone administers and aversive stimulus.  This occurs when students don't pay attention in class and receive a poor grade or when a student receives a detention.  Negative punishment occurs when someone withdraws a desirable stimulus.  For example, when students are using their phone during school, a teacher may take a away the desirable stimulus.  Also other privileges such as the library and computers may be revoked.  Punishment can create fear and make students in school afraid of doing a certain action that would result as punishment.  Therefore students are conditioned to behave with desirable actions of the school so they don't receive punishment.
~~Amanda

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