WSPA Channel 7 News: November 20, 2008 Time: :15
This article is about a news report that I saw on television. For nearly 2 minutes a father video taped his two toddlers fighting continuously. Throughout the tape, you could hear the father laughing and urging the fight to proceed. One of the children fighting was in so much distress that he wanted the beating to stop but the father told them to keep going. Another child (the eldest, around the age of 5) tried to break up the fight, but was quickly removed. The mother of the children was outraged. She could not understand why their father would let such a thing happen.
This article relates to psychology by way of Chapter 5 (Learning- positive and negative reinforcers), the defense mechanisms, and learning by association. When the children were fighting this was an obvious sign of aggression caused by the frustration of another stimuli (someone hitting another person). The negative reinforcement of the father urging the fight on was wrong and should not have happened. Also, the negative reinforcement of pulling the 5 year old off of the fight was wrong. This could cause him to believe that fighting and letting a fight continue is okay, when it really is not. This is called associative learning (learning from whats in the world around you). The initial fact that one of the sons hit another was the defense mechanism of displacement. And the fact that the father suppressed the information was repression. That is hot this news report related to psychology.
1 comment:
This makes me sick!!!!!
Why are some people allowed to have children??? There are so many good families out there that want to adopt children and would give them good, loving homes and can't have them for what ever reason so to see something like this makes my blood boil. This guy is teaching his children that it is "OK" to solve problems through violence and unfortunately, these little kids are going to end up in dysfunctional relationships, having problems at school and maybe even jail if this type of parenting continues in the home. I mean people go to jail for fighting dogs, Did this guy go to jail for fighting his kids??? Is this the next sport for idiots??
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