theory

Examples of theory in the following topics:

• Conflict Theory

  • Provide an overview of conflict theory, including its most prominent theorists.

• Drive-Reduction Theory

• Freud's Psychosexual Theory of Development

• Drive Theory

• Managerial Assumption: McGregor

  • McGregor's main theory is comprised of Theory X and Theory Y.
  • Theory Y is in line with behavioral management theories.
  • Theory Y managers are generally the opposite.
  • McGregor was a lifetime proponent of Theory Y.
  • Explain Douglas McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y approach, merging classical and behavioral organizational theories

• Political Opportunity Theory

  • Describe how and why political opportunities are important to social movements according to political opportunity theory.

• New Social Movement theories

• Scientific Method

  • If a theory can accommodate all possible results then it is not a scientific theory.
  • Although strictly speaking, disconfirming an hypothesis deduced from a theory disconfirms the theory, it rarely leads to the abandonment of the theory.
  • If the theory has to be modified over and over to accommodate new findings, the theory generally becomes less and less parsimonious.
  • This can lead to discontent with the theory and the search for a new theory.
  • If a new theory is developed that can explain the same facts in a more parsimonious way, then the new theory will eventually supersede the old theory.

• Cannon–Bard Theory of Emotion

  • The Cannon–Bard theory of emotion argues that physiological arousal and emotional experience occur simultaneously but independently.
  • Researchers have developed several theories of how human emotions arise and are represented in the brain.
  • The Cannon–Bard theory of emotion was developed by researchers who criticized the James–Lange theory for its limited ability to account for the wide variety of emotions experienced by human beings.
  • While the James–Lange theory proposes that emotions arise from physical arousal the Cannon–Bard theory argues that physiological arousal and emotional experience occur simultaneously, yet independently (Lang, 1994).
  • According to the Cannon–Bard theory, emotional expression results from activation of the subcortical centers of the brain.

• James–Lange Theory of Emotion

  • According to the James–Lange theory of emotion, emotions arise from physiological arousal.
  • Researchers have developed several theories of how human emotions arise and are represented in the brain.
  • To address these limitations, other theories—such as the Cannon–Bard theory—have been developed.
  • The James–Lange theory of emotion states that emotions arise as a result of physiological arousal.
  • Describe the relationship between emotion and arousal according to the James–Lange theory