I see rewards and punishments as very detrimental to learning about the real world. I think the kids minds are not properly developed by the adults always substituting artificial effects for real world effects that would have had an actual relationship to the cause.
Not every punishable situation is a safety, or a life and death matter.
They do say that over-punishing has the effect of some hampering of cognitive development, and I think this is why, because punishments and rewards interfere with actual, real life learning.
And if I’m right about that, then the increase of negative cognitive effects is linear, not only present in “over-punishing.”
Wouldn’t you think?
Also, punishment wouldn't have to physical for that negative effect, would it? Any punishment that substitutes an artificial effect for a real cause would do that . . .
No comments:
Post a Comment