Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The premise that managers who use either The ory X or Theory Y can be successful depending upon the circumstances in their particular situation.  

A set of positive assumptions about the nature of people.  

A set of negative assumptions about the nature of people.  

Used by Watzlawick to explain change from outside the group involves a process by which a class or group moves to a higher logical level.  

A set of interacting, interlocking, or independent principles designed to account for a wide range of observations or facts. An argument which explains a scientific fact. A statement that best explains all the available evidence on a given topic. If evidence that contradicts the theory becomes available, the theory must be abandoned, modified, or changed…

Factors that influence the development of personality have motivated the establishment of a variety of theories, which include the following: 1. analytic, 2. body type, 3. existential, 4. individual, 5. psychoanalytic, 6. self-actualization, and 7. trait.  

Concerned with the principles and descriptions of the ways in which learning takes place, learning; connectionist theory; cognitive theory.  

The theory that reward is necessary for learning to take place.  

The failure rate of a contraceptive method when it is used correctly, actual failure rate.  

Pertaining to the failure rate of contraceptives when used as directed, use effectiveness.