A lot of children in Hong Kong are said to be suffering from `Little Prince/Princess Syndrome’. What advice would you give to those parents whose children are showing the symptoms (intervention)? What advice would you give to those parents who are worried that their children will in the future develop these symptoms (prevention)?
Introduction
Nowadays, Hong Kong people have getting more attention to material life that lead to
a lot of children are suffering form `Little Prince or Princess Syndrome’.
The princess or prince syndrome is means children are spoiled, do not know the way
of the world and do not take care of self. It is seems the princess or prince in the fairy
tale. In their daily life, a lot of people are conniving and accommodating that made
them more rely on other peoples.In this essay, I am going to give some suggestion to
those parents whose children are showing and worried their children will in the future
develop these symptoms.
Intervention
It was effective to improve the problem on children who are suffering fromlittle
princess or prince syndrome in the operant conditioning. Its means learning in which
probability of response is changed by change in its consequences. Also, the object
has voluntary to do the behavior.
Operant conditioning involves an association between a behavior and a consequence.
It is also called response-stimulus or RS conditioning because it forms an association
between the animal's response that behaviorand the stimulus that follows
consequences.(Skinner,1938)Its have four operant condition procedures, Positive
reinforcement, Negative reinforcement, Positive punishment and Negative
punishment.
Moreover, the law of effect is a response that is followed by satisfying consequences
becomes more probable and a response that is followed by dissatisfying consequences
becomes less probable.(Thorndike,1898) Therefore, children will increase the