Author Question: The new governor hires you to devise a plan to stop bullying in the schools. Based on the principle ... (Read 104 times)

Wadzanai · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

The new governor hires you to devise a plan to stop bullying in the schools. Based on the principle of insufficient punishment, what might be a good way to punish bullies?

a. After the first offense, dismiss them from school for the day.
b. A three strikes, you're out policy in which the first two incidents go unpunished, but the third leads to expulsion and being placed in a juvenile detention center.
c. Physically punish them by letting teachers slap them with yardsticks.
d. Tell teachers to give a mild punishment that barely gets the bully to stop the behavior and to be consistent with this mild punishment.

Question 2

When preschoolers were forbidden to play with a very attractive toy, some received mild threats of punishment, and others received severe threats of punishment should they disobey (Aronson & Carlsmith, 1963).

Because they had ________ justification, children in the mild threat condition experienced ________ dissonance, and changed their rating of the forbidden toy.
a. ample external; more
b. insufficient external; less
c. ample external; less
d. insufficient external; more