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Conditioning children
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- 1How is operant conditioning at home appropriate?Gill (1998) positive reinforcement, e.g pocket money, for doing chores such as tidying their room results in a child preforming 20% of house hold chores.
Jo Frost says that children should be rewarded with a reward chart and punished on a naughty step. If the parent stays calm and consistent the child will learn consequences. - 2What is an economic implication of Gill (1998)'s statement?If financial rewards increase grades, this could benefit society and the economy in he long run because people would leave school with better grades and get better jobs. (Levitt et al, 2000)
But this makes a generation which is solely motivated by money... healthy? - 3Who disagrees with Jo Frost and why?Morris (2014) claims that the 'naughty step' can have negative long term effects on a child, because they can not reflect upon their actions and may have a negative impact on their development.
- 4Operant conditioning is appropriate in school.Controlling caldrons behaviour through positive reinforcement, e.g gold stars, has been found to be effective.
McAllister et al (1969) found that increase 'teacher praise" led to a decrease in inappropriate talking. - 5Who disagrees with operant conditioning in schools and why?Montessori education would reject the use of conditioning techniques, believing that they were harmful to a child's development.
Lepper et al (1973) supports the claim that their research into nursery. Kids were motivated by the reward not to succeed because they spent less time on the task. - 6Classical conditioning appropriate in schools.LeFrancois (2000) suggests that classical conditioning can be used to improve student performance. Teachers should condition students to associate the class room with pleasant emotions not negatives ones, by increasing pleasant displays and nice smells etc...
- 7What is the generic evaluation point, relating to the assumptions of conditioning?The conditioning assumptions were based on early research, is this research relevant in modern society?
- 8How does Social learning theory make conditioning children a bad idea?Positive reinforcement doesn't always produce desirable behaviours. In many cases children learn undesirable behaviours such as aggression.
- 9Why should we use condition on vulnerable children?Lovaas (1987) developed applied behaviour analysis to increase social interactions for children with autism. (rewards for socially appropriate behaviours)
Robinson et al (1981) found that token economy can be used to improve the literacy skills of children with hyperactivity issues. - 10Why would it be seen an inappropriate to condition vulnerable children?ABA is demanding and requires approx 40 hrs of therapy per week.- costly and unnecessary e.g Anderson et al found 20 hrs is enough. But it is likely undesirable behaviours would re-emerge once the therapy has finished and the reinforcement is removed.
- 11What are the social implications of conditioning?Conditioning vulnerable children allows them to be more "normal" hence more accepted in society. But is it right to manipulate them?
Political implications. Corporal punishment is legal in the Uk but UN want it to be illegal. - 12What are the ethical implications of conditioning children?Naughty step and corporal punishment causes children harm.
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