Strengths: it acknowledges that people think and that thinking matters (unlike radical behaviorism).
Weaknesses: people aren’t computers, and this approach sort of makes you think they are. Emotions are neglected from the information processing approach, and behavior is discussed much less.
obedience.. ie milgrams study
The situational/contextual account of Milgram’s study (1963) says that obedience is due to someone’s surroundings, not their personality, and argues that obedience in such situations may be synthesised in a lab. Milgram’s study seeked to show that maybe we are all capable of terrible actions (e.g. when the Germans killed shedloads of people in the war) under the right circumstances.
Milgram’s study involved advertising for participants to take part in a ‘memory’ experiment and paying them $4 an hour for their time. The participants were given the role of ‘teacher’ who was required to ‘punish’ the ‘learner’ for every incorrect answer that learner gave. The punishment was a supposed electrical shock which increased with every wrong answer. There is a lot more interesting detail to be read about this bit but I suggest you look it up yourself. There’s no shortage of interesting detail in sociology and psychology textbooks. (NB// the ‘learners’ where only actors and not really getting shocked)
Milgram predicted that the majority if ‘teachers’ would stop shocking the ‘learner’ well before the maximum voltage which would have been lethal had it really been administered. Yet 65% of ‘teachers’ obeyed the experimenter and continued to the highest shock level. Therefore, people would obey a malevolent authority even when it collided with a moral prohibition of hurting and even killing others. This reflected the power of social influence on obedience.
The social explanation for this obedience is that as children, we learn to act as agents of authorities. Obeying these authorities is our moral imperative. Thus, we become used to having other people in authoritative positions, telling us what to do.
As a result, if what we are doing for this authority goes against our morals, we locate responsibility for our actions in that authority, not ourselves. This is because by obeying, we are not acting on our own initiative.
Obedience increased to 93% in Milgram’s studies when the responsibility for actually flicking the switch that supposedly administered the electrical shock was removed. That is, when direct responsibility was removed, obedience was increased.
iv been asked by my teacher to find out what ” what is the event. division approach in operating system.? ” and i cant seem to find any links..or what is it.,, i would prefer if u explain..rather than a link.. but anythin will do thnks
I worked on an Operating System that was "Event Driven". basically it means the OS call routines depending on what the event is. If their are no events going on the CPU just does some idle stuff like adding ones and zeros while waiting for an Interrupt(event)
The Japanese methodology:
Japanese industrial combines are not what they appear to be. They do not develop all of their own product line, nor do they manufacture it. In reality, these huge businesses are more like “Trading companies”. That is, rather than design and manufactures their own goods, they actually coordinate a complex design and manufacturing process that involves thousands of smaller companies. The goods you buy with a famous maker’s name inscribed on the case are seldom the product of that company’s factory – and often not even the product of its own research. Some else designed it, someone else put it together, someone stuck it in a box with the famous maker’s name on it and then shipped it to its distributors.
Does this operation sound unnecessarily complex? Obviously, these huge corporations have their own factories and workers. So why don’t they employ their own resources to produce the goods they sell?
They do, of course – but only partially. For instance, it would make every little sense for an electronics giant like Matsushita to farm out the design, manufacture and assembly of a refrigerator or microwave oven. These products are ideally suited to mass production in the kind of large, highly automated factories that the giant companies can afford. Their factories produce hundreds of thousands of these units every year.
But what about products that companies must continually redesign to compete for public acceptance – like headphone stereos, small compact disc players, or personal computers? Redesigning means retooling a production line. It means sourcing new parts and lots of other things. For a typical product, a company might expect to sell 30,000 units in a few months, retool, sell another 50,000 u nits, redesign some basic components, retool again, see what the competition brings out, retool again and on and on, throughout the life cycle of the entire product line. Although some of the giant makers are now employing the newest flexible manufacturing system (FMS) to allow them more freedom in production, this retooling process is something many big companies want to eliminate.
Thus, they farm out much of this business to subcontractors – smaller companies they can depend on. These companies in turn, faced with redesigning and producing a product three or four times a year, will subcontract the design or manufacture of a dozen key components to still smaller companies.
How extensive is this sub contracting pyramid? Would you guess a few dozen companies? a few hundred? Think again. One electronics company I know has over 6,000 subcontractors in its industrial group, most of them tiny ships that exist just to fill a few little orders for the companies above them.
Welcome to the real world of Japanese manufacturing.
1.What are the strengths and weaknesses of the Japanese approach to product development?
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The US spends more on corporate welfare than on welfare for poor people.
You don’t. The blending of capitalism and socialism is a dangerous thing, as we have seen recently. Government can’t run anything, yet they tell us how to run business; ergo business fails.
After 9 11 they did the same thing with the airlines, but the lower service airlines prospered without help by just doing things differently and appealing to more money minded people. Businesses need to have the chance to fail, or they won’t make sound business decisions. This leeds to corporate welfare.
As a conservative I think the bailout is a bad deal, but the mixing of philosophies that caused it is far, far worse.
I’m writing a book and I want to feature specific brand products. How do you approach a company for an exclusive promotion/feature for freebies deal?
Note: these products will be featured because they are the best, not because I want free product. The products will be utilized for photographs in the book, showing them being used for their purpose. It would cost thousands to purchase all of the products and use them together as intended, so a free promotion for free product does not seem unreasonable.
It’s not selling out nor product placement. My book is automotive in nature. Naming brands is necessary and expected.
"To achieve the horsepower level in this ____ truck engine we used 90cc ____ heads, and a ________ intake with 350cfpm airflow." The reader has no idea what parts flow those numbers, and often don’t have the resources to find out.
Just like using lyrics in a novel, you need permission for the photographs. You can write for permission to the photographer who took the pictures of the things you want, or write the customer relations(?) or publicity dept. of the company. You’ll have to list the credits at the end of your book. I agree that these companies aren’t just going to pass out their products just so you can write a book. Have you thought about going this route: unless you’re giving a negative spin to the products (McDs making kids fat, etc), maybe one or more of the companies would underwrite your project. Is there an Association (like the Tobacco one–this is the first one that came to mind) that might help you out with the samples? Could you arrange to have the photographs taken in their labs? You sound enthusiastic and you’ve got the start of a plan,but you really need to put a specific, detailed proposal in place first.
In my opinion, gained from nearly 40 years in primary classrooms and using every known teaching "system" as they came into and went out of fashion, the disadvantages greatly outweigh the advantages using the "theme-based" approach.
The main disadvantages, already mentioned by other responders, are:
1. The effort involved in trying to integrate the varying "subjects" of the primary curriculum into the topic that you are covering. This can be extremely difficult and often becomes artificial For example, how do you fit the necessity to teach the mathematics of triangles into a project on "Britain since the Second World War." It’s not impossible, but it would be difficult.
2. The "theme-based" approach means that the class spend more or less every teaching session being presented with information about whatever the subject of the theme happens to be. This is fair enough if it’s an interesting theme but not all children will find this to be so and they will get bored and turned off the learning process. But most children like to change subjects every hour or so. It refreshes their interest. You will have children saying things like, "Oh, no! Not more ******************************************." Whatever the topic is.
I think that most primary teachers, bearing in mind the strictures imposed by the National Curriculum, prefer to teach in subjects while, at the same time, letting the children realise that learning is not contained in compartments but the subjects do overlap to form "the big picture" of learning and knowledge.
I have hung out with her maybe once thru other ppl but I have never really talked to her. I said a joke in class the other day and she laughed, I think she was the only one. Anyway we stand by the door before the period ends. What should I do?
ask her: What did the frog said before he was dissected? wait for a response or a i dont know. then say "I unno, but ur cute. join me on a date together"
a few things that are important here. u opened with something related to the class. anything after isnt that important. the joke is that there is no joke and you’re retarded, but u dont care. she will laugh. after saying "i unno" pause for 1.5 sec so she’s expecting something. Follow up with the cute and date. it’s so bold, u instantly gain attraction from her. the most important part: say "join" me on a date together. dont say, do u want to go on a date. that will make u as asking, only chumps ask. u command.
if she says no or some BS, then u say, "but it’s our date. if u dont come, then it would just be me watching a movie by myself, and trying to make out with the invisible girl next to me" if u get another no, then tell her "ok, but if u change ur mind, tell me soon, or it wont be a date anymore" giving the impression that u will change plans and she will "lose" u
if she changes her mind, tell her u cant make it. sorry. pause for 5 seconds, and then make up a new plan on a different date.
Hi im at university studying business studies and i need some help with some work, im running out of time and the hours of research is slowly killing me.
What i need to know is what are the distinctive features of the classical or behaviourist approach to learning?
If anyone can help it will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaviorism
I have to start with my family life growing up to explain. My father was (and is) a sadist. About 3 times a week he would get me cornered and torture me and laugh while my narcissistic mother egged him on. I was fed the last in the family and my clothes were thrown together by my mother and made out of left over curtain fabric. I was never given anything I ever asked for, like dolls, clothes, toys, anything.
Okay… Now here I am, a grown woman, and I have decided to collect dolls for fun. I do love this hobbie and almost everything about it except for the doll collecting groups online. They are soooooo 7th grade, with their little cliques.
The problem is this–recently my mother told me that I had been written out of the will. No surprise there. But still I am feeling so vengeful and am tapping her for money every chance I get so as to get "mine" now. I have lost whatever feeling of pity I had for her. There is nothing left. I am done.
What I would like to do is to move on with my doll collecting and come to a place in my head where the hate is gone.
I live on disability so I do need the little bit of money she sends me. They bought my sister her house and put her son through college, so she can send me a few measly dollars.
Is there a cognitive approach to this dilemma that will give me peace?
I am looking for quality answers here and if I only get one helpful response I will be happy.
I give 10 points within 24 hours
Also growing up in a severely traumatic way, I think I understand what you’re talking about as far as your approach to the present.
All I can tell you is, over time, I have *tried* to start forgiving these people that destroyed me as a child through adulthood. I’ve found that two of the people involved, I have forgiven them. I have absolutely no emotions toward them…not even hate. I held onto that for a long time, and letting go and, essentially, acting as though they don’t even exist on this planet helped me get through that part of it. It’s kind of like forgiving them allowed me to forgive myself. Forgive myself for hating them and wishing pain upon them for so long. That’s not who I am and forgiveness helped me understand that.
I don’t know if this will help you or not. I didn’t write it because of the points….I could care less about the points…my concern lies with the people that post their problems on here looking for help. And I want to help.
So, yeah, I think forgiveness plays a big part in recovering from these d*ckheads that ruined our childhoods.
Best of luck to you, sincerely. I hope you are able to reach peace and I hope you do well with your doll collection (I collect Jem and the Holograms dolls 
).