Punishment Alan Kazdin uses strategy writing to appeal to the readers who are most likely a parent or a child getting punished. Alan Kazdin offers parents classes, and, in these classes, he speaks about punishment. Alan Kazdin uses his opinion, due to his credibility from teaching the course he states a few good points in his class. Like even if spanking a child might make the parent feel better but, in reality it may not change the behavior of the child. A child has feelings and what Alan Kazdin is showing is spanking may actually have no effect except for, psychological effect. This article is not to persuade the audience to change their opinion on how they discipline children, it is to inform each reader on the possible outcomes of spanking …show more content…
He is putting it in a way where describing the actions may cause a psychological change instead of being straight forwards and just saying not spank one's child. "In captology, persuasion is defined as "the attempt to change attitudes or behaviours or both." Alan in his writing is forming a sudden way of telling one not to spank children that there is a better way to handle punishment. Like using positive reinforcement for behavior that has liking to one's expectations then using negative enforcements for behavior not of one's liking. There have been studies on punishment for a while not everyone agrees with how people like to deal with behavior there …show more content…
First one would feel bad because the thought of teaching the child profound words will cross one's mind. Along with am I a bad parent it is either or teens have an adolescent year. To rebel and not want to listen to any parent but, instead of using negative enforcements try positive opposites when doing this you will reinforce non-occurrence of the behavior. So, saying things like it is nice having you at dinner today or it is nice having your presence at the dinner table tonight. Research has shown in recent studies that with building positive opposites will cause the child to behave in a manner of one's liking. If coming home one says don't give me attitude the child will start to rebel and lead them to avoid one as soon as they walk into the house. Khazan goes on to say, "this is so fascinating to me, because I have a feeling this works, but I also feel like this is a hard thing for parents to decide to do." Khazan has a valid point with the research it is a good thing on parents, but it is one's choice on whether or not they would like to discipline the child in the form of spanking or through psychological ways that will make the child feel good about behavior to one's liking and continue to do