Significant Event
Significant Event
Angelis Delgado Sanoguel
Professor Bennett
Intro to Psychology
January 24, 2015
Significant Event
Psychological Perspectives Significant event Introduction Events in an individual’s life shape of the personality traits in an individual. The impressions of the events can be deep set that it can remain as a fresh memory for a longer period of time than normal and cannot create the specific driving force in an individual to achieve and move in a particular direction. There are many events in my life that were significant and helped me grow stronger. One of these events stands out in particular to me and had the greatest impact in my life.
Physically disciplining a child has a dramatic impact on both the child as well as the parent. As a child I remember that for any little misbehavior resulted in a physical punishment as well as getting yelled at, as time went by my mind was set that I already knew when the “beating” was going to come. My family continue to be very big on respect and discipline, but at the time little did they know that by hitting us they weren’t just punishing us for a little while, they were in fact pushing us away and causing frustration, at times even hatred. I also researched that in result of physically harming children increases their risk of mental illness, in which resulted when I came upon this article which states that “It’s pretty well established that physically harming children has a negative impact on mental health, but this is showing the same effect even when you look at milder forms of physical force. This is saying that physical punishment should not be used on children of any age.” Each perspective has its strengths and weaknesses, which brings difference to our understanding of the human behavior. In my situation I am going to go with the behavioral perspective, as well as the psychodynamic perspective. By looking at the physical punishment from a behaviorist perspective, conditioning by
Angelis Delgado Sanoguel
Professor Bennett
Intro to Psychology
January 24, 2015
Significant Event
Psychological Perspectives Significant event Introduction Events in an individual’s life shape of the personality traits in an individual. The impressions of the events can be deep set that it can remain as a fresh memory for a longer period of time than normal and cannot create the specific driving force in an individual to achieve and move in a particular direction. There are many events in my life that were significant and helped me grow stronger. One of these events stands out in particular to me and had the greatest impact in my life.
Physically disciplining a child has a dramatic impact on both the child as well as the parent. As a child I remember that for any little misbehavior resulted in a physical punishment as well as getting yelled at, as time went by my mind was set that I already knew when the “beating” was going to come. My family continue to be very big on respect and discipline, but at the time little did they know that by hitting us they weren’t just punishing us for a little while, they were in fact pushing us away and causing frustration, at times even hatred. I also researched that in result of physically harming children increases their risk of mental illness, in which resulted when I came upon this article which states that “It’s pretty well established that physically harming children has a negative impact on mental health, but this is showing the same effect even when you look at milder forms of physical force. This is saying that physical punishment should not be used on children of any age.” Each perspective has its strengths and weaknesses, which brings difference to our understanding of the human behavior. In my situation I am going to go with the behavioral perspective, as well as the psychodynamic perspective. By looking at the physical punishment from a behaviorist perspective, conditioning by
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