Punishment is when a response is followed by a stimulus that suppresses the frequency of a response in the future and this stimulus is called the punisher. Discuss.

Bandura and Walters (1959) stated that children who are made to suffer grow up to be adults who make others suffer (as cited in Chance, 1999).  They begin to deal with their problems in later life with troublesome behaviour and inflicting pain on others just like their punishers did to them when they were younger.  This co

Skinner suggested that it is possible to construct a society in which punishable behaviours occur infrequently or never.   Basically if behavioural technology was used to control behaviour in nonpunitive ways, good behaviours would be common, and there would be little or no need for punitive measures  (Nye, 1993, pg. 104).  Skinner s earliest work shows that punishment only has a temporary suppressive effect, rather than permanently decreasing responding….(short extract)