Punishment

Question 1

Seifried (2008) believes that punishment serves as ….

Answer 1

• an effective treatment when a coach intends to instruct, train, drill, and cultivate behaviour
• learning from those mentally capable of appreciating its objective

Question 2

Corporeal punishment:

Answer 2

the intentional infliction of punishment on the body in any manner without injury or intended abuse

Question 3

Extreme punishment:

Answer 3

either amusing (eg. hazing) or violent reprisal (eg. revenge)

Question 4

Corporeal punishment does not equal ____ ____.

Answer 4

extreme punishment

Question 5

Claims for punishment:

Answer 5

• 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

Question 6

Criticisms of punishment:

Answer 6

• 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

Question 7

Albrecht’s issues with vagueness:

Answer 7

• what counts?
• combines punishment with discipline
• coach becomes judge, jury, and executioner
• punish what?

Question 8

What can we be punishing?

Answer 8

• correction of performance errors

- disciplinary or behavioural infractions

Question 9

Albrecht’s issues with punishment (7):

Answer 9

• 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

Question 10

How does punishment lower self-confidence and self-esteem? What is Seifried and Albrecht’s view on this?

Answer 10

• 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

Question 11

What is the fatal flaw of punishment?

Answer 11

uses PA as a negative

Question 12

Describe how punishment uses PA as a negative.

Answer 12

• 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

Question 13

Seifried’s response to Albrecht:

Answer 13

• focuses on Albrecht’s fatal flaw
• elite sport, not PE by teachers
• elite sport is winning-centred
• cultural relativity comes into play

Question 14

Seifried’s suggestion for batter striking out:

Answer 14

• punish the batter

- fundamental drill practice

Question 15

Albrecht’s suggestion for batter striking out:

Answer 15

• discipline

- additional instruction and batting practice

Question 16

What is the difference between making an athlete practice a skill over and over and physically punishing him/her?

Answer 16

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Question 17

For Seifried, punishment is not about …., but providing….

Answer 17

• 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

Question 18

Seifried says that Albrecht’s position appears problematic because…

Answer 18

athletes expect to receive punishment assignments during their participation and, in some cases, appreciate the attention