Child Psychology & Corporal Punishment

Sequence

• Child Psychology and Related Issues• Objectives of Education• Corporal Punishment and Its Effects on

Child’s Personality

Part I – Child Psychology & Related Issues

PERSONALITY???

Personality

• For psychologists, personality is a set of relatively enduring behavioral characteristics and internal predispositions that describe how a personality reacts to the environment. Psychologists recognize that an individual’s behavior is not consistent all the time or in every situation.

HeredityGender

Physical Conditions

EnvironmentCultural FactorsSocial Factors

Situational Factors

Personality

Environment

• Family • Education• Religion• Health System• Political & Economic System• Legal System• Adaptability to new Technologies• Sports Facilities

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• Perception is the process by which people interpret the input from their senses to give meaning and order to the world around them. • Accurate perceptions are necessary to make

good decisions and to motivate workers to perform at a high level, to be fair and equitable, and to be ethical.

Perception

• The process of combining, integrating and interpreting information about others to gain an accurate understanding of them.• Personal identity• Social Identity

Social Perception

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Cognitive frameworks that represent organized knowledge about a given concept or stimulus developed through experience.

Schemas effect : Information Interpretation Decision Making Attitude BEHAVIORS

Schemas

12Attitude

• An attitude is a mental stage of readiness, learned and organized through experience, exerting a specific influence on a person’s response to people, objects, and situations with which it is related.

• Attitudes are evaluative statements that are either favorable or unfavorable concerning objects, people, or events.

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Relationship with Behavior

Behavior

Attitude

Personality

Perception

The UnconsciousThe conscious. The small amount of mental activity we know about.

The preconscious. Things we could be aware of if we wanted or tried.

The unconscious. Things we are unaware of and can not become aware of.

ThoughtsPerceptions

MemoriesStored knowledge

FearsUnacceptable sexual desiresViolent motivesIrrational wishesImmoral urgesSelfish needsShameful experiencesTraumatic experiences

Bad

Worse

Really Bad

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PART II- WHAT ARE THE OBJECTIVES OF

EDUCATION?

To create law abiding and patriotic citizens

To produce a workforce which could think globally and act locally.

Personality Development

• Increase the need for achievement of a child• Improve the perception of a child about the society. Improved

perception will create a better attitude which will result in cultured behavior.

• Provide sports and extra curricular activities where a child can polish his/her hidden talents.

• Allow the child an open culture where he/she can develop their creativity.

Social Change in the Society

CYCLE OF POVERTY

Low Income Households

Stress Related Diseases

Problem child comes

to school

Creates poor Human Capital

Parenting Styles

Responsibility of Teachers

• Learn Empathy.• Provide a Model to the child to improve his/her social

identity.• Improve your communication style. Be an active listener. • Understand the motivation process of a child. Provide

encouragement to improve his/her self confidence.• Provide counseling to difficult parents and children.

Motivation Process

•Negative Reinforcement.• Positive Reinforcement• Extinction• Punishment

PART III – CORPORAL PUNISHMENT

AND ITS EFFECTS

WHAT IS CORPORAL PUNISHMENT ??

Effects of Corporal Punishment

• It lowers their self-esteem.• It interferes with the learning process and with their

intellectual, sensory and emotional development.• It discourages the use of reasoning.• It makes children feel lonely, sad and abandoned.• Impede teacher-child communication.

Effects of Corporal Punishment

• Lowers the need for achievement.• Violence begets violence.• Children become critical of authority.

Student with a Low Academic Concept of the Self

• Is lonesome and afraid of bringing others’ laughs. • Avoids problems, rejects new experiences for fear of

failure. • Is insecure and indecisive. • Feels vulnerable and is influenced by the opinion of

others. • Does not share easily with others.

Student with a Low Academic Concept of the Self

• Is usually fearful and worried. • Tends to be passive and limits contact with others. • Adopts inflexible and stubborn positions. • Strongly communicates his/her abilities and positions. • Is extremely competitive and attacks others if possible.

How can we develop a motivation system for a mischievous child ?

Educate, do not Punish

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