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Psychology Discussion Forum

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Psychology Discussion Forum 6.1Topic: Instructions:1 page with, Single Line Spacing, Must have “Quote” from text (Chapter 7)Should elementary school children receive material rewards for performance and cooperation?Imagine that you are a parent and that you have a child in the first grade. You have received a notice from the principal of the school that a program of tangible rewards (buttons, stickers, stars, bags of popcorn, cookies) is being considered. The notice compares tangible rewards for the children with the pay adults get for work. From what we know about behaviorism, is this a good idea?Explain why the extensive use of tangible rewards may backfire in this situationIf elementary school children will be given material rewards for giving good performance and their cooperation in the school, that it will have various effects on the students ranging from positive to negative. In the short run, it will definitely help the teachers in the school to motivate the kids to behaveappropriately, to be regular in the class and also will help in giving better performance in the studies andother activities. But if attention will not be paid in the selection of the reward it will make lose interest inthe subjects.Being a parent, I will suggest that, rewards should not be used until and unless there is a particular reason and if rewards are being used then they should be used for limited time period. If we talk about the implications of the rewards in the long run, then it might have a negative impact on the behavior of the child. For motivating the kids to perform well can be understood, but later on, in life that kid will always look forward to such incentives. Furthermore, when he is not able to get such rewards and incentives as he used to get, he may not even want to any work. Until and unless it offers some rewards and incentive for doing a particular work. Such kids will always look forward to incentives instead of other benefits that particular work may provide them.CitationReferences
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