On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 12:36:03 -0500, (Bruce D. Ray)
wrote:

In article ,
(Kane) wrote:

{big snip}

On the contrary. Science does address this issue. Brain scan
studies
show that distractions inhibit and distract from learning tasks,
and
if you aren't spanking to teach what ARE you doing it for?

As a research scientist whose projects have recently been
expanded to include functional MRI studies in humans,

Being new to the field you'll want to do some catching up.

http://anon.user.anonymizer.com/http...es%22+learning

I
find this remark about brain scan studies and distractions
quite interesting.

I hope so.

Please provide your citations on this.
In particular, please include in these citations of human
subject data.

You can do your own provision of citations when you have done your
homework. See the URL above.

Again and again in studies on learning, using brain scan imagery,
anything that distracts creates more learning difficulty.

And that was known long before imaging technology uncovered it. But
social scientists weren't believed by some, apparently.

So professor, unless you are one of those strange thinking error
impaired folks that believes that pain and humiliation wonderfully
concentrates one's focus I think you'd have to admit that spanking is
a distraction from learning, not an aid to it.

All pain and humiliation does is wonderfully concentrate one's
attention on the pain and humiliation, and the lessons in that can be
very bad for the child and the rest of us when he or she becomes an
adult.

Pain can stop a behavior, something we want the child not to learn,
but it is a poor teacher of what behavior is wanted, and the side
effects aren't worth it.

Kane