Reinforcement Vs Punishment - Blog Posts
A piece I did in class today. We covered reinforcement vs punishment and one thing I can't get out of my mind is that this is the first time I'm hearing that reinforcement is more effevtive than punishment in teaching desirable behaviors. In an upper division college level psychology course.
More people should be learning this type of thing in high school. Not all teacher, coaches, and mentors are going to take a class like this one. Definitelly not all parents are going to take such a course because many do not go to college or choose to pursue psychology. But so many children are punished harshly, where reinforcement would better obtain the desired result and would refrain from harming the child or their current or future mental state.
I don't know, it's just some thoughts I had.