Why Using Writing Assignments As Punishment Is Unwise Practice

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Gloria Steinem has traveled the globe for over 30 years speaking, advising, fund-raising, organizing, testifying, demonstrating, educating, and campaigning. During this time, she has reached out to millions of girls and women introducing them to the feminist cause. She has also published many books, magazines, and collections regarding feminism. Steinem says that reaching out has been the most important part of her life. Steinem as a feminist has brought together feminist, and plans to help them in any way she can throughout the rest of her life.

To better explain let me make a comparison. When I am assigned a writing assignment or I am writing because the action is being forced upon me I find myself not enjoying the process and overall the end result is subpar. The perfect example of this would be my junior year in high school when I was enrolled in AP english literature. I dreaded the majority of the class simply because there was so much writing involved in the entire course and therefore I was constantly writing just to get a grade. Being forced to write in such high volume every week for an entire school year was not enjoyable for myself and as a result the

Stimulus Discrimination • The tendency of a CR to be weaker or not occur to the CSs that are dissimilar to the original CS or that have undergone extinction. Classical conditioning • Establishing a learned association between two stimuli. (Pavlov and dogs) Operant Conditioning • The imposition of a contingencies, either deliberate or natural. (reinforcer and punisher) Little Albert Experiment • Watson and Rayner 1920 • When presented with a white rat, a disturbing noise. Became afraid of other white colored things (white dogs, fur coats, santa claus) Negative reinforcement • Something unpleasant is moved away or doesn’t happen when the desired behavior is performed. Chapter 5: Acoustic encoding • The process of remembering and comprehending something that you hear. Repetition of words or putting information into a song or rhythm uses acoustic encoding. Semantic encoding • A specific type of encoding in which the meaning of something (a word, phrase, picture, event, whatever) is encoded as opposed to the sound or vision of it. Research suggests that we have better memory for things we associate meaning to and store using semantic encoding. Iconic encoding • Very brief sensory memory of some visual stimuli, that occur in the form of mental pictures. Stored for shorter periods of time than echoic memories. Memory retrieval • The process of extracting knowledge fro long term memory. Curve of forgetting • The

Spanking is a particular parenting behavior that I feel strongly about. In my particular case, my parents used spanking as disciplinary action if deprivation of privilege and time-out did not serve their purpose with my brothers and I. In these cases my parents would strike, or spank, our buttocks with an open palm to serve as a form of punishment. Although my parents did utilize spanking, they exhibited an authoritative parenting style where they promoted autonomy within reasonable limits (Bigner, 2013). I think that if spanking is used moderately and under these circumstances it can be an extremely effective form of discipline. Unfortunately, parents often abuse spanking resulting in numerous negative effects on children. Also, corporal punishment, such as spanking, is most often associated with authoritarian parenting styles. Authoritarian parents typically use forceful means to gain their child’s cooperation and obedience.

This paper will provide the behavioral definition of punishment and give examples of both positive and negative punishment in different types of settings. The guidelines for the effective use of punishment, as well as legal and ethical issues that should be considered by the Behavior Analyst while designing a behavior intervention plan are identified.

Because musical pieces portray emotions, different music make people feel different things and thus get associated with different things. Jay Dowling and Dane Harwood explain that "patterns within the music itself ... of tensions and relaxations ... mirror the form of emotional tensions and relaxations" (Dowling 205) that humans relate to their own. This is shown by a study where every subject who associated a song with their current relationship explained that the song gave them the pleasant emotions that their relationship provided (Baumgartner 616).

Without thoughtful consideration from teachers, writing across the curriculum becomes busy work and loses its value. In addition, students will put less effort into writing when they know it will not be carefully read. Writing must be graded based content in addition to grammar, and should not require students to summarize, but to create a valid argument and provide support for this argument. When students are required to write across the curriculum, learning is enriched and the possibilities are endless.

Our brains are hardwired to automatically link music to important times or parts of our lives

Classical conditioning is a type of learning where the response to a meaningful stimulus can be associated with a neutral stimulus, causing the subject to respond similarly when exposed to the neutral stimulus.

From a very young age people experience punishment; from school teachers sending students to the corner for a moment of “time-out”, to mothers spanking their children or taking away some of their privileges do to deviant behavior. The purpose of punishment according to its history has always been to rehabilitate the offender into a person who understands that engaging in deviancy or crime, is a wrongful act (Samaha, 439). Comparable with many of the other criminal justice institutions; or decision points, the mission of prisons has experience change throughout the years; however, according to Joel Samaha author of the book Criminal Justice Seventh Edition, general deterrence, incapacitation, and retribution have remained dominantly as the primary

In my experience teachers have often used consequences in the majority of the classes that I have taken. I have teachers that implemented mostly consequences to maintain the class contract working properly and efficiently. I had a teacher that will only give partial credit when we turn in assignments late. I remember that while I was in middle school I turn my assignment late I got a C. The teacher told me that if I have turn in the assignment on time I would have earned an A. This clearly was a consequence that taught me a lesson that I need to manage my time to complete my assignments on time. Additionally, this affected me in a positive way highlighting that I am responsible for my decisions and actions. When I made a mistake I can

Classical conditioning would suggest that depression is cultured through the connotation of certain stimuli’s’ with undesirable emotional states. Operant conditioning believes that depression is instigated by

Many people today are getting arrested for simply disciplining a child. But, in older times disciplining a child set good moral standards and taught that child on what that child was supposed to do and what not to do. There is a fine line between abuse and discipline. So what is child abuse? Child abuse consists of any act of commission or omission that endangers or impairs a child’s physical or emotional health and development. Child abuse includes any damage done to a child which cannot be reasonably explained and which is often represented by an injury or series of injuries appearing to be non-accidental in nature. There are also different kinds of child abuse; which include physical, emotional, and sexual. But, discipline does not

Punishment has been in existence since the early colonial period and has continued throughout history as a method used to deter criminals from committing criminal acts. Philosophers believe that punishment is a necessity in today’s modern society as it is a worldwide response to crime and violence. Friedrich Nietzche’s book “Punishment and Rehabilitation” reiterates that “punishment makes us into who we are; it creates in us a sense of responsibility and the ability to take and release our social obligations” (Blue, Naden, 2001). Immanuel Kant believes that if an individual commits a crime then punishment should be inflicted upon that individual for the crime committed. Cesare Beccaria, also believes that if there is a breach of the