Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
104 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Fromm says that Lorenz and Freud share a conception of human action in which people are said to be “driven” to act in certain definite ways by instinctual energies.
|
T
|
|
|
Fromm says that Lorenz, like Freud, believes that people will behave aggressively only in the presence of external stimuli that force them to respond with aggression.
|
F
|
|
|
Fromm says that a genetic tendency to violence would not, in fact, give the bearers of this tendency an enhanced chance of survival.
|
T
|
|
|
While Fromm disagrees with Lorenz on many specific theoretical points, he nevertheless greatly admires Lorenz’s extensive knowledge of human history and psychology.
|
F
|
|
|
For Lorenz, in “the good old days” of his youth, there were still monarchs and domestic servants.
|
T
|
|
|
For Fromm, narcissists are so insulated from reality that they are literally incapable of being frustrated.
|
F
|
|
|
Fromm argues that atrocities were committed by nearly everyone, on an almost universal scale, in both World Wars.
|
F
|
|
|
Fromm argues, against Lorenz, that two groups may have a great deal of contact with one another and (as a result) know each other well, yet remain bitter adversaries.
|
T
|
|
|
For behaviorists like J. B. Watson and B. F. Skinner, behavior is ruled, not by instinct, but exclusively by environmental factors.
|
T
|
|
|
Skinner regards negative and positive reinforcements as equally effective.
|
F
|
|
|
Fromm denies that, in fact, people can ever be conditioned to do anything.
|
F
|
|
|
Fromm believes that Skinner’s theory is exceptionally popular because, in our society, people feel that they are continuously subject to manipulation of one kind or another.
|
F
|
|
|
The psychologist A. H. Buss, like other behaviorists, believes that “intention” is the most important of all psychological concepts.
|
F
|
|
|
Fromm says that when two different people act in the same way, their behavior often reflects sharply different motives, and hence cannot be said to spring from a single cause.
|
T
|
|
|
As reported by Fromm, of the 40 subjects in Milgram’s experiment, 35% refused at one point or another to continue administering shocks to the “victim” in the experiment.
|
T
|
|
|
Fromm argues, against Lorenz, that two groups may have a great deal of contact with one another and (as a result) know each other well, yet remain bitter adversaries.
|
T
|
|
|
Fromm says that Milgram places too much stress on the obedience of many test subjects, and that we should give at least equal weight to the disobedience of others.
|
T
|
|
|
Fromm believes that different people respond to orders differently because they have different personality types.
|
T
|
|
|
Fromm agrees that Zimbardo’s famous prison guard experiment confirms the behaviorist thesis that most people, whatever their convictions or character, can be induced to do almost anything in certain situations.
|
F
|
|
|
Zimbardo’s experimental methods were so extreme that he was forced to conceale his experiment from the police.
|
F
|
|
|
Zimbardo and his co-authors, in a passage quoted by Fromm, say that the test subjects who were assigned the role of prison guards were uniformly hostile and cruel to the subjects acting as prisoners.
|
F
|
|
|
Journalists often allege that the Rwandan genocide was the result of ancient animosities between tribes.
|
T
|
|
|
The genocide was planned so secretly that no one besides the conspirators suspected it would happen.
|
F
|
|
|
In precolonial Rwanda, the notion of Imana referred to a special and indeed sacred power.
|
T
|
|
|
Rwanda’s kings were purely exploitive towards the peasants, always taking and never giving.
|
F
|
|
|
From the day Rwanda won independence from Belgium in 1962 until the genocide in 1994, Rwanda was ruled by just one regime.
|
F
|
|
|
All Rwandan citizens during the Habyarimana era were required to belong to the ruling party.
|
T
|
|
|
Despite differences in status, Rwandans in the Habyarimana era were all essentially equal in terms of wealth and landownership.
|
F
|
|
|
Coffee production for the international market was a major part of economic life in the Habyarimana era.
|
T
|
|
|
The inner circle of the Habyarimana regime (the so-called Akazu) was always loyal to the Rwandan president in the years before the genocide.
|
F
|
|
|
The RPF was a bandit army of Zairean mercenaries which came to Rwanda to steal cattle.
|
F
|
|
|
New political parties were formed in Rwanda in the early 1990s, including several pro-democracy opposition parties.
|
T
|
|
|
The Arusha Accord of 1993 handed total power to the RPF.
|
F
|
|
|
The Rwandan genocide was meticulously organized by the state.
|
T
|
|
|
When the Tutsis arrived in Great Lakes Africa they were primarily cattle-herding pastoralists.
|
F
|
|
|
The word “Hutu” means “subject” or “vassal.”
|
T
|
|
|
In the period before European colonization, the division between Tutsis and Hutus in Rwanda became primarily a class division.
|
T
|
|
|
The Belgians discriminated against the Tutsis in favor of the Hutus.
|
F
|
|
|
The Belgians interpreted the Tutsi/Hutu distinction as a racial difference.
|
T
|
|
|
Habyarimana’s power base in the Rwandan north (Gisenyi, etc.) was always strongly and sincerely loyal to the cause of Hutu unity.
|
F
|
|
|
Tutsis alone were killed during the genocide.
|
F
|
|
|
Women and children face many of the worst problems in post-genocide Rwanda.
|
T
|
|
|
Uvin defines “structural violence” as military-political repression.
|
F
|
|
|
Uvin says the World Bank was wrong to view Rwanda before the genocide as the “most egalitarian” poor country in the world?
|
T
|
|
|
Prior to the genocide, the Rwandan state resisted the temptation to take land from the Rwandan peasants.
|
F
|
|
|
A study in 1982 revealed that most Rwandan peasants did not want their children to be peasants when they grew up.
|
T
|
|
|
Umuganda is a specifically Rwandan form of teknonymy.
|
F
|
|
|
AIDS is a major problem in Rwandan cities.
|
T
|
|
|
The average size of family landholdings rose in Rwanda from 1949 to the early 1990s.
|
F
|
|
|
According to Uvin, during the Rwandan genocide the poor were more likely to be victims of the rich than vice versa.
|
F
|
|
|
The average age of marriage in Rwanda declined in the years prior to the genocide.
|
T
|
|
|
According to Uvin, the genocide began in the cities and had an urban “impetus.”
|
T
|
|
|
Uvin considers questions about the personal motives and character of Habyarimana and his inner circle to be vitally important if we hope to explain the genocide.
|
F
|
|
|
Uvin says that historically, before the genocide, Rwandans were no more more violent or immoral than any other people.
|
F
|
|
|
The Oliners pay equal attention to people who rescued the jews for purely humanitarian reasons and those who did so for money
|
F
|
|
|
Among non rescuers the oliners distuingished active and bystanders
|
T
|
|
|
Comte agreed with Machiavelli and Hobbes that peple are simply incapable of acting for reasons other than self intrest
|
F
|
|
|
Durkhiem regarded altruism as an ornament to social life, not its foundation or casis
|
F
|
|
|
The oliner define altrustic behavior as ricky or self sacrifcial behavior that is undertaken volentarily to help other to help other, without concert for external rewards
|
T
|
|
|
Research shows that blue collar workers and women were the two groups most likley to participate in holocaust rescue efforts
|
F
|
|
|
Some nations which were generally resisitant to anti semitism kept levels of jewish victimization failry low: others did the reverse
|
T
|
|
|
Social learning theorist, the oliners say, have trouble explaining behavios that isnt motivated by desire for external rewards
|
T
|
|
|
Only people who had jewish friends before the war became rescures
|
F
|
|
|
People in eery nation under nazi rule wer equally likely to personall witness nazi brutality
|
T
|
|
|
Most rescuers lived alone with few neighbors and did not fear that they would be exposed or tunrned in by anyone close to them
|
F
|
|
|
Since most rescuers had witnessed nazi mistreatment of non-jews, they knew that non-jews were also vunerable to Nazi persecution
|
T
|
|
|
Most rescuers colunteere their help without being asked
|
F
|
|
|
The oliners conclude that rescuers simply happened to have more opportunities to help the jews that non rescuers did
|
F
|
|
|
The onliner found that rescuers felt signigicantly more hopeful aboue resisting Nazi domination that nonresuers did
|
T
|
|
|
Even though rescures were more likely than others to hear their parents talk about the jews fewer of them reported hearing their parents mention negative sterotypes about the jews
|
T
|
|
|
Rescuers were twice as likely to be proestants as catholics
|
F
|
|
|
Radical behaviorism claims that there is no such thing as human nature and people are born with minds that are like blank slates ready to be formend by there external environment.
|
T
|
|
|
JB watson founded the system of scientific management of the workplace
|
F
|
|
|
BF skinner would agree that poeple are not freely choosing conscious angents
|
T
|
|
|
The Oliners pay equal attention to people who rescued the jews for purely humanitarian reasons and those who did so for money
|
F
|
|
|
Among non rescuers the oliners distuingished active and bystanders
|
T
|
|
|
Comte agreed with Machiavelli and Hobbes that peple are simply incapable of acting for reasons other than self intrest
|
F
|
|
|
Durkhiem regarded altruism as an ornament to social life, not its foundation or casis
|
F
|
|
|
The oliners define altrustic behavior as risky or self sacrifcial behavior that is undertaken volentarily to help others, without concern for external rewards
|
T
|
|
|
Research shows that blue collar workers and women were the two groups most likley to participate in holocaust rescue efforts
|
F
|
|
|
Some nations which were generally resisitant to anti semitism kept levels of jewish victimization failry low: others did the reverse
|
T
|
|
|
Social learning theorist, the Oliners, have trouble explaining behavior that isnt motivated by desire for external rewards
|
T
|
|
|
Only people who had jewish friends before the war became rescures
|
F
|
|
|
People in every nation under nazi rule wer equally likely to personally witness nazi brutality
|
T
|
|
|
Most rescuers lived alone with few neighbors and did not fear that they would be exposed or tunrned in by anyone close to them
|
F
|
|
|
Since most rescuers had witnessed nazi mistreatment of non-jews, they knew that non-jews were also vunerable to Nazi persecution
|
T
|
|
|
Most rescuers volunteered their help without being asked
|
F
|
|
|
The oliners conclude that rescuers simply happened to have more opportunities to help the jews that non rescuers did
|
F
|
|
|
The Onliners found that rescuers felt significantly more hopeful about resisting Nazi domination than nonrescuers did
|
T
|
|
|
Skinner behaviorism was relatively non reductionist as he believed that genes and personality traits intervened between stimuli and responses to stimuli
|
F
|
|
|
Anti-reductionist such as Fromm upheld the notion of cautious optimism meaning that even though the last century produced massive wars and genocide there was stil hope for humanity
|
T
|
|
|
Due to the success of Milgrams obedience experiment the experiment has been replicated many times
|
F
|
|
|
Of the five teachers portrayed in Milgrams film only one of them refused to finish the experiment
|
F
|
|
|
According to fromm social character is a collective disposition to think feel or act
|
T
|
|
|
The rawanda genocide occurred just a fews years after rwanda gained independence from belgium
|
F
|
|
|
The media portrayed the rwandan genocide as a continuation of entrenched ethnic hatred between hutus and tutsis
|
T
|
|
|
The term genocide wast coined untill 1944
|
T
|
|
|
The Rwandan genocide was the first genocide officially recoginize by the united nations and then only after it had occurred
|
T
|
|
|
class relations in pre colonial twanda were characterized as patrimonial meaning a give and take relationship between the dominate and subordinate calsses
|
T
|
|
|
in the 1930 the belgian colonial power reduced teh size of the tutsi nobility from 50000 to 20000 chiefs and subchief
|
F
|
|
|
Under Habyaramana rule from 1973 -74 the 2nd republid was much more predatory than the regime of the 1st republic of the Gitaramiste faction
|
T
|
|
|
the term hutu and tutsi are primarily ethnic terms
|
F
|
|
|
Pre colonial rwandan rulers were precieved as possessing religious power
|
T
|
|
|
Rwanda has always been a society with little inequality
|
F
|
