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Using conditioning on children
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- 1Why is it controversial? (3)- Conditioning should be used careful because it can change a person's behaviour and personality without their consent
- Advocates: a host of benefits to individuals and society
- Detractors: creating selfish automations - 2At home: Supporters (2)- Supernanny Jo Frost: use of naughty steps to guide the use of reinforcements, and emphasised the importance of positive reinforcement to control the child's behaviour
- Gill: Payment/postponing of pocket money led to children doing 20% of chores - 3At home: Detractors (2)- Morris: naughty steps can have long-term effects, because it is without empathy to how children feel
- Likely to be inconsistent in real life - 4At school: Supporters (3)- Education is a major user of operant conditioning e.g. merits
- McAllister: teacher praisal or disapproval led to decrease in inapp taking in high school
- LeFrancois: classical conditioning by maxinising pleasant stimuli - 5At school: Detractors (3)- Lepper: nursery children spent half less time on drawing when promised reward-> destroy motivation
- Dweck: praised group did worse in second test -> positive reinforcement not always lead to better performance
- Lewis: Japanese students no reward - 6Vulnerable group of children: Supporters (3)- Lovaas: developed Applied Behaviour Analysis to increase social interactions of children with autistic spectrum disorder
- Robinson: hyperactivity
- Chaney: Funhaler led to positive response to treatment of asthma - 7Vulnerable group of children: Detractors (3)- ABA supported only by Lovaas's research, but methodological flaw because random allocation X
- Lovaas said ABA 40 hours a week to be successful, which is intensive and very expensive
- Only treat symptoms - 8Implications (3)- Important for vulnerable groups of children for them to be more accepted and fully participate in the society
- Rewards such as money can lead to better performance (Levitt) but may lead to society motivated by extrinsic factors
- Money spent on rewards - 9Conclusions (2)- Consideration of ethics and effectiveness
- Socialisation inevitably involved conditioning as basic routes to learn and teach
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- AS - Level Psychology (Behaviourist Approach) Flashcards on Using conditioning on children, created by Field Jellyfish on 28/04/2016.
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