punishment

Definition von punishment im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
punish: To cause great harm to. (a punishing blow)
punish: To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action
punishmentspan>: A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution
punishmentspan>: Any treatment or experience so harsh it feels like being punished
punishmentspan>: The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction
punishmentspan>: A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime
Punishmentspan>: punition
punish: To injure, as by beating; to pommel
punish: {v} to chastise, beat, inflict penalties
punishmentspan>: {n} any thing inflicted for a crime
a punishmentspan>: chastisement
punish: To dumb down severely or to the point of uselessness or near-uselessness
punish: with pain or loss; as, to punish murder or treason with death
punish: To punish someone means to make them suffer in some way because they have done something wrong. According to present law, the authorities can only punish smugglers with small fines Don't punish your child for being honest
punish: To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience
punish: To punish a crime means to punish anyone who commits that crime. The government voted to punish corruption in sport with up to four years in jail
punish: {f} discipline, penalize
punish: To inflict a penalty for (an offense) upon the offender; to repay, as a fault, crime, etc
punish: To deal with roughly or harshly; chiefly used with regard to a contest; as, our troops punished the enemy
punish: impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on; "The students were penalized for showing up late for class"; "we had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again"
punish: {f} amerce
punishmentspan>: The New Testament lays down the general principles of good government, but contains no code of laws for the punishment of offenders Punishment proceeds on the principle that there is an eternal distinction between right and wrong, and that this distinction must be maintained for its own sake It is not primarily intended for the reformation of criminals, nor for the purpose of deterring others from sin These results may be gained, but crime in itself demands punishment (See MURDER; THEFT )
punishmentspan>: Punishment is the act of punishing someone or of being punished. a group which campaigns against the physical punishment of children I have no doubt that the man is guilty and that he deserves punishment
punishmentspan>: Deliberate infliction of harm as a moral sanction against offenders Punishment may be understood, designed, and applied according to any of the three major varieties of normative theory: retribution and reparation focus on satisfaction of duties, deterrence and prevention on securing desirable outcomes, and reform and rehabilitation on improving moral character Recommended Reading: Nigel Walker, Why Punish? (Oxford, 1991) {at Amazon com}; David A Hoekema, Rights and Wrongs: Coercion, Punishment and the State (Susquehanna, 1987) {at Amazon com}; Punishment, ed by John Simmons, Marshall En, Joshua Cohen, and Thomas Scanlon (Princeton, 1994) {at Amazon com}; Louis P Pojman and Jeffrey Reiman, The Death Penalty (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998) {at Amazon com}; and David Garland, Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory (Chicago, 1993) {at Amazon com} Also see SEP, OCP, Hugo Adam Bedau, IEP, noesis, and BGHT
punishmentspan>: A consequent stimulus that reduces the probability a behavior will occur
punishmentspan>: Presentation of an aversive event or removal of a positive event following a response which decreases the frequency of that response
punishmentspan>: an event that immediately follows a behavior and results in that behavior being reduced or eliminated
punishmentspan>: Remember positive and negative reinforcement increasethe responses they follow Punishment is likely to decrease those responses
punishmentspan>: An instrumental conditioning procedure in which an aversive stimulus is made contingent on a response (Anderson)
punishmentspan>: A process for weakening behavior which can take one of two forms First, an aversive or noxious stimulus can be made contingent on the response to be weakened Second, a positively reinforcing stimulus can be withheld or removed contingent on the response to be weakened
punishmentspan>: the act of punishing
punishmentspan>: A punishment is a particular way of punishing someone. The government is proposing tougher punishments for officials convicted of corruption
punishmentspan>: A stimulus that decreases the probability that a previous behavior will occur again
punishmentspan>: Punishment is a term from Psychological Learning Theory that has a precise meaning; it refers to something that causes a behavior to lessen in intensity There is nothing that is intrinsically punishing A thing is called punishing if, when it is applied, it results in the reduction of behavior that you want to reduce
punishmentspan>: The punishment for failure to comply with a sentence or pay a fine on time is one degree higher than the original sentence or fine For disrupting court proceeedings, the minimum sentence is a minor fine, and the maximum is a major fine For violating a court order or injunction, the minimum sentence is a minor fine, and there is no maximum sentence
punishmentspan>: The application of an aversive stimulus following some behavior designed to decrease the probability of that behavior
punishmentspan>: You can use punishment to refer to severe physical treatment of any kind. Don't expect these types of boot to take the punishment that gardening will give them. see also capital punishment, corporal punishment. capital punishment corporal punishment strong and hard punishment
punishmentspan>: any event whose presence decreases the likelihood that ongoing behaviour will recur
punishmentspan>: A negative consequence of a behavior, which leads to a decrease in the frequency of the behavior that produces it (p 211)
punishmentspan>: Penalty for wrongdoing, especially for crime
punishmentspan>: A consequence that decreases the future probability of a response One type of punishment involves thepresentation of a nonprefered event following the misbehavior A second type of punishment involves the withdrawal of a positive reinforcer following the misbehavior
punishmentspan>: The least effective way of changing someone's behaviour or improving their performance
punishmentspan>: A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention
punishmentspan>: The adding of a negative stimulus in order to decrease a response (e g , spanking a child to decrease negative behavior)
punishmentspan>: Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person because of a crime or offense
punishmentspan>: Severe, rough, or disastrous treatment
punishmentspan>: The application of an aversive stimulus following some behavior designed to decrease the probability of that behavior [2]
punishmentspan>: {i} discipline, penalty; fine, financial penalty
punishmentspan>: Anything that decreases the likelihood of a response being offered
punishmentspan>: wrath
punishments: plural of punishment