Pyschology - Aversive Control

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The way in which parents choose to deal with their children plays an important role in the personality they will develop, and the way they handle their own kids. I've observed several tactics that my aunt uses with her kids and deduced several conclusions from my examination.

Generally, problems are initiated over fighting between her two children. She almost always responds to their fighting with a shrill scream of disapproval. Thus, creating an uncomfortable, almost hostile environment in an attempt to stop the children from fighting. The kids immediately try to defend their side of the story as to why the fight began in order to 1) justify their negative behavior and 2) prevent my aunt from being mad at them. My aunt typically becomes so overwhelmed with the bombar

dment of account and shouting, that she herself screams even louder- threatening the children with the suggestion that they will be sent to their rooms if they don't stop. Consequently, the children have a tendency to cry and receive sympathy from my aunt.

Now there are several concepts that can be taken out of this situation and analyzed- the first being the effects of aversive stimuli when dealing with reprimanding children. My aunt's screaming to attempt to paralyze the fighting was an aversive stimuli that tells the children, "if we don't want to hear her yell anymore, we should stop fighting." Next, she uses a threat of punishment as an aversive stimuli that tells the kids, "we should stop arguing, if we want to avoid this punishment." The children respond by c

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Approximate Word count = 520
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