Punishment Flashcards
Seifried (2008) believes that punishment serves as ….
- an effective treatment when a coach intends to instruct, train, drill, and cultivate behaviour
- learning from those mentally capable of appreciating its objective
Corporeal punishment:
the intentional infliction of punishment on the body in any manner without injury or intended abuse
Extreme punishment:
either amusing (eg. hazing) or violent reprisal (eg. revenge)
Corporeal punishment does not equal ____ ____.
extreme punishment
Claims for punishment:
- punishment restores fairness
- punishment makes repeat offenders less likely
- reduces negative feelings toward the wrong-doer
- upholds the impartiality of the status quo
- promotes solidarity and cooperation
- allows wrong-doers to repent
- fear of punishment motives rule following
Criticisms of punishment:
- punishment = abuse
- punishment leads to shame and guilt, which are negative
- causes psychological harm
- punishment leads to more violent behaviours as it teachers wrong-doers to use force to solve problems
- punishment is not educative because wrong-doers cannot get the point
Albrecht’s issues with vagueness:
- what counts?
- combines punishment with discipline
- coach becomes judge, jury, and executioner
- punish what?
What can we be punishing?
- correction of performance errors
- disciplinary or behavioural infractions
Albrecht’s issues with punishment (7):
- damages coach-athlete relationship
- fear of failure and reduced risk-taking
- increases anxiety
- lowers self-confidence and self-esteem
- lowest denominator of moral development
- nearly every professional organization has condemned it
- uses PA as a negative
How does punishment lower self-confidence and self-esteem? What is Seifried and Albrecht’s view on this?
- feelings of guilt and shame can result from punishment
- Seifried sees these as weapons a coach should use
- Albrecht disagrees, saying these feelings negatively impact performance
What is the fatal flaw of punishment?
uses PA as a negative
Describe how punishment uses PA as a negative.
- depends on athletes hating the PA
- either they will not hate it and therefore punishment won’t work
- or they will hate it and learn that PA is undesirable or dangerous
- logically then, corporeal punishment is wrong
Seifried’s response to Albrecht:
- focuses on Albrecht’s fatal flaw
- elite sport, not PE by teachers
- elite sport is winning-centred
- cultural relativity comes into play
Seifried’s suggestion for batter striking out:
- punish the batter
- fundamental drill practice
Albrecht’s suggestion for batter striking out:
- discipline
- additional instruction and batting practice
What is the difference between making an athlete practice a skill over and over and physically punishing him/her?
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For Seifried, punishment is not about …., but providing….
- not about the promotion of hating PA
- providing information to the athlete to help him or her avoid the behaviour, action, or performance that prompted the punishment assignment through the use of PA
Seifried says that Albrecht’s position appears problematic because…
athletes expect to receive punishment assignments during their participation and, in some cases, appreciate the attention
