Lecture Notes Soc 3

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Taylor was the key person in "Human theory of management."

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false

Front 2

the principal finding of the Hawthrone Experiments was that Taylorism is the best way to manage workers

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false

Front 3

Karel Capek said that robots were teh perfect worker, becasue they never need anything

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true

Front 4

watson used his "Lil' Albert" experiment to prove wheter of not emotions could be programmed in an infant

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True

Front 5

Watson renounced behaviorism becasue he thought it was too complicated than he originally thought

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True

Front 6

Skinner said that the 19th century was an age of "rugged individuals"

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True

Front 7

Milgram performed shock experiments on his subjects to prove people were just puppets and obedient to authority

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True

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Taylorists were also referred to as efficiency experts

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true

Front 9

When Ivan Pavlov began his experiments involving dogs and saliva, he was concerned with conditioning responses

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true

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watson maintained a strong belief in the ability to condition people to do or buy anything thoughout his entire life

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false

Front 11

Lorenz said if you know geese you know people

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true

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a worker who is soldiering is working as fast and as efficently as possible

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false

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after working for an advertising agency, watson went on to renounce behaviorism

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true

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modern day human resource departments are modeled after the ideas of Taylor

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true

Front 15

Watson used the idea of operant conditiong

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false

Front 16

fromm saw a large connection between capitalism and the dominant theories on human nature in the 19th and 20th centuries

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true

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Capek, represented workers machine-like behaviro in his play "RUR" thourgh robots

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true

Front 18

the 20th century focused on Social Darwinism dealing with conflict, competitoin, and violence

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false

Front 19

Watson said that emotions are just automatic physiological responses and enviromental stimuli

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true

Front 20

Skinner says that freedom is just an illusion

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true

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Fromm would agree that human behavior could be molded by positive and negative contingencies

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true

Front 22

a football team can be though as a form of taylorism. the coach instructing the players

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true

Front 23

watson applied the principles of stimulus response theory to the advertising of Johnsons baby powder and maxwell house coffee

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true

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Freud was exactly like Fromm in the sense that both were anti-redux

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false

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a big crticism of lorenz's biological reductionst view is that he drew conclusions about human behavior based on observing the behavior of geese

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true

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Dawkins cited his aunt to demonstrate that humans are pressure cookers within which aggression is constantly simmering

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false

Front 27

B.F Skinner says we CAN afford freedom

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false

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Dawkins and John B Watson both describe humans as "machines"

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true

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Watson promoted the theory of stimulus-response to explain human behavior

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true

Front 30

John B Watson was the founder of behaviorism

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true

Front 31

authority is a natural fact, not a social fact

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true

Front 32

Anti-Reductionists view essentially believe that the "whole is greater then the sum of the parts"

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true

Front 33

Skinner says no to instincts and enviroment and no to free will

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false

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watson claims that we are ruled by the enviorment and every action is a reaction to a stimulus

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true

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in the book "On Aggression" Lorenz wrote that humans are predatory animals

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true

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social darwinists praised war becasue of its function in asserting the position of the dominant and eliminating the weak

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true

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according to sociobiology, our behavior is a reaction to our enviroment

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true

Front 38

Fromm says that "character" and "personality" fit perfectly together and never create conflicts

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false

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Fromm agrees that people are only one type of personality choice, and cant be more then one

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false

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Dawkins famously wrote that society is "a war of all agaisnt all"

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false-hobbes

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Lorenz like skinner was an enviromental redux, not a biological redux

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false

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Richard Dawkins wrote in his book the "selfish gene" that people are "survival machines" and that our only motivation is to replicate our genes

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true

Front 43

Fromm took Freuds pyschoanalytic theory and reworked it to become a more anti-redux social psychological theory

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true

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Fromm agreed with Freud that toilet training experice was the most important stage in determining how people turn out.

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false

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fromm rejects teh idea tha people can be conditioned

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false

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Lorenz and Skinner both studied different types of animals to develp their theory on human nature

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true

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Fromm affirms choice and free will. in other words, we are responsible for what we do

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true