Sentences with phrase «rewards and punishments at»

In the interim, the disciples are exhorted to be faithful, for there be rewards and punishments at the time of the last judgment.

Not exact matches

In other words, he's looking at ways in which we can use and tailor concepts like reward and punishment to encourage people to work collaboratively rather than self - interestedly.

The fear of the great nothing is too much for my mind to bear, and I can sleep at night by convincing myself that the absolute nothing we all face one day will instead be full of happy choirs of angels, reward for any suffering I've endured, punishment of the wicked and evil (it pains me to think those who cause so much evil will not suffer for eternity, so hell is a great comfort too), and that I'll get to see all those I currently miss since the death of friends and family are so painful.

They move chunks of information around in ways nothing else can — as payloads that convey intolerance, suppression of ideas and opinions, even violence at times, and persecution of dissenters, all with the weight behind it of an all - powerful God and it's eternal rewards and punishments that are conveniently hidden in an unknowable afterlife.

He reported sarcastically that «there» were some members [at the Constitutional Convention] so unfashionable as to think that a belief of the existence of a Deity, and of a state of future rewards and punishments would be some security for the good conduct of our rulers, and that in a Christian country it would be at least decent to hold out some distinction between the professors of Christianity and downright infidelity or paganism» (IV: 642) This chapter also includes excerpts from state constitutions that imposed religious tests on government officers (Delaware, for example.

A more ancient view, still apparent at many points in the Old Testament, had been that righteousness was rewarded by prosperity and long life in this world, and misfortune was a punishment for sin; but as Israel suffered more and more adversity, and the most faithful individuals and groups were the most oppressed and afflicted, it came to be felt that the humble, the meek, the devout, the poor were the righteous people of God, and the mighty and prosperous were the proud, wicked oppressors.

Rewards and punishments are both at the disposal of God who will reward the good and punish the wicked.

It consistently described how, at the end of time, men would appear before the Judgment Seat of God to give an account of their lives, to hear the sentence of judgment passed, and to receive the due reward or punishment.

Hartshorne seems to hold that we shall engage in no personal actions at all after death; and, as for rewards and punishments, he declares his rather unconventional conviction that they are all received in the now of the present moment of action and at no other time or place.46

Isn't your behavior controlled, at least in part, by reward and punishment?

R.C. Zaehner claimed that «from the moment that the Jews made contact with the Iranians they took over the typical Zoroastrian doctrine of an individual afterlife in which rewards are to be enjoyed and punishments endured... the idea of a bodily resurrection at the end of time was probably original to Zoroastrianism».5 Cohn also concluded that the similarities between Zoroastrianism and the ideas found in the Jewish Apocalypses were too remarkable to be explained by coincidence.6

They include the naming of angels (Michael, Raphael and so on); a personal Devil (which Satan later became) with accompanying demons; a Book of Life which records the deeds of people during their lifetime; a coming cosmic conflict in which the forces of evil will be finally overthrown; the separation of the soul from the body at death; a general resurrection and a universal judgement; and an afterlife with rewards and punishments.

In social - science class that day, however, they were learning complex material and behaving perfectly well — and not because they were incentivized with rewards or threatened with punishments, but because school was, for that period at least, actually kind of interesting.

They're showing that students, especially those growing up in adverse environments, aren't deeply motivated by the kind of reward - and - punishment structures that prevail at most schools.

If you're being the coach and encouraging your child along the way, rather than the judge with the reward or punishment at the other end, your child will definitely gain a sense of being capable and develop higher self esteem from the inside (as opposed to hanging their self esteem on external approvals).

«Once children are developmentally ready, rewards and other motivational strategies can be helpful for daytime toilet training, but rewards or punishments are not helpful in getting children to be dry at night.

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The study helps explain a distinctly human mechanism of cognition, said the lead researchers at Brown University, and could be applied to studying and treating reward - seeking or punishment - avoidance conditions such as addiction or obsessive - compulsive disorder.

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Such volatility can wreak havoc when rewards and punishments are doled out on the basis of changes in test scores; school personnel are at risk of being punished or rewarded for results that are beyond their control.

At many charters, teachers use a meticulous system of punishments and rewards to shape behavior.

Rewards and punishments may help to maintain order in the short term, but they're at best superficially effective and at worst counterproductive.

The study, conducted by economics professors Scott J. Adams and John S. Heywood at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, claims there are «significant downsides of reward - punishment systems based on quantitative outcomes, whether in the public or private sector.»

But two and a half decades of toxic policies — including punishments and rewards for school systems based largely on terminating or moving principals — has led to teachers being at sea amid a squall of inconsistent initiatives and demands.

And in any case, unless you catch her in the actual act of squatting, she will not associate any scolding or punishment with her accident — dogs are very literal, and rewards and corrections must happen at the precise moment the behavior occurs in order to have any effeAnd in any case, unless you catch her in the actual act of squatting, she will not associate any scolding or punishment with her accident — dogs are very literal, and rewards and corrections must happen at the precise moment the behavior occurs in order to have any effeand rewards and corrections must happen at the precise moment the behavior occurs in order to have any effeand corrections must happen at the precise moment the behavior occurs in order to have any effect.

Balanced trainers have taken on board the concept of using valuable rewards and in marking desirable behaviors to help dogs learn quickly, but give up during the proofing process and fall back on punishments at this point.

Instead of trying to figure out what to avoid or do in the midst of aversives that could escalate at any time, the animal trained with positive reinforcement has time to think, the freedom to try without punishment, and the fun of receiving rewards during every training session.

Mixing the two types of training (punishment and reward) might seem like a good idea, but as some of these studies have shown the history of the way the handler has treated the dog at any given point in time, will affect the way that the dog responds in the future (thus punishment in the past has an adverse effect in the future, even if the handler is now using rewards)

Training is not at all synonymous with punishment, and should not seem like it to your pet — keep training sessions brief, reward all good behavior, and know that sometimes you can just ignore bad behavior.

Instead, a system of scoring that has points which are rewarded at selected intervals and a system of punishments where the scores and lowered for the «failure» of the player rather than «game over» occurring.

Joseph Allen, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, said rewards are something that teenagers «want to think about» and punishment is «something they don't want to think about.»

Positive Discipline parenting tools teach valuable social and life skills without using any form of punishment, rewards, praise, permissiveness and even logical consequences — at least hardly ever.

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