Psychology Homework: Rewards, Conditioning, and Media Violence

This psychology assignment explores the effects of rewards on student behavior, examining both short-term and long-term implications. It delves into the psychological theories of classical and operant conditioning, explaining how humans learn through rewards and punishments. The assignment t...Read More

PSYCHOLOGY

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6.1
If 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 behave appropriately, to be regular in the class and also will help in giving better
performance in the studies and other activities. But if attention will not be paid in the selection of
the reward it will make lose interest in the 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.
6.2
1. The behavior of human teaches us to respond to reward and punishment. And human usually
gives a toffee or chocolate to the kid for good behavior or scold them if they are doing anything
wrong. Right from their starting days, humans have been trained. And once we learn to start our
journey, humans are ready for punishments as well as rewards.
There are two theories namely, classical conditioning and operant conditioning which fulfill the
need of the question. The classical conditioning theory says that it is a modification in the
behavior by which a subject comes to respond in an anticipated way before neutral stimulus that
has constantly been presented along with an undefined stimulus that provokes the anticipated
response.

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The operant conditioning theory is a way of learning that comes through punishment and rewards
for behavior. By this punishment and rewards, the suggestion is complete between a behavior,
and it is importance for that behavior.
2. The free will is very tough issue because it shows collision among two different, however it is
also legal perceptions. Within the psychology that there is no consensus as to whether we
really do have free will – many of our field seems to assume that we do not. Skinner do not agree
much on, but one thing they did agree that behavior of human was influenced by insider and the
outsider. Freud says that unconscious fights as reasons of behavior, and Skinner says about
environmental possibilities.
3. We can see that Skinner work was the answer to the questions like, how human learn, he very
well specified us that genetic matters, pavlovian conditioning matters, and human & other things
that included in the mechanism that allow feedback from the environment so that we can shape
our behavior Skinner called this process operant conditioning. The operant is the performance
that works on environment and by doing this, we can get environment feedback to shape our
behavior by creating this. Example like when I was small, I stuck my finger in electric switch
board that was our behavior and that was a crazy feeling it a kind ok environmental feedback.
And I learn from this that I will never stuck my finger again in electrical switch board.
6.3
1. According to the psychological theory, yes violence in the media make me aggressive but only
then if they have any harsh nature to start with shown in the study. The fight scene or Bloody
scenes both do not have the similar effect on inert characters who respond by seeing totally
different scenes.
Aggression is the trait which is developed by the nervous system over starting time from
childhood. Designs of behavior develop harder, and the nervous system formulates to continue
the behavior patterns into adulthood when they become increasingly instructed in personality.
This depends on the person to person how they take media to them. Soft-minded people takes it
softly, and aggressive people take those scenes aggressively.

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2. Violence is now a day everywhere like in video games, book, movies, and even in a cartoon,
news channels, the internet, etc. and it becomes hard to avoid. This mostly affects the children,
because what they see the learn that. It is now a day become tough to teach our child good value.
Tips for kids parents:
1. Explain consequence’s
2. Keep an eye on the clock
3. Teach conflict resolution
4. Know your kid's media
5. Keep an eye on interactive media violence

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References
Bouton, M. E. (2007). Learning and behavior: A contemporary synthesis. Sinauer Associates.
Bower, G. H., & Hilgard, E. R. (1981). Theories of learning. Prentice-Hall.
Driscoll, M. P., & Driscoll, M. P. (2005). Psychology of learning for instruction.
Furnham, A. (2005). The psychology of behavior at work: The individual in the organization.
Psychology Press.