If it is true that doing the same action repetitivly expecting a different result is insaneity. Then is everyone who hates there job and goes back everyday insane?
2006-07-23 19:48:09 · 6 answers · asked by Amber 4 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
: External (to student) : "Why does a capacitor block DC but allow AC To pass through ?
Student: See, a capacitor is like this ---| |--- , OK. DC comes straight, like this ----------, and the capacitor stops it. But AC,goes UP, DOWN, UP DOWN and jumps right over the capacitor!" ------------------- good one : - )
2006-07-23 19:59:51 · answer #1 · answered by avi 2 · 9⤊ 5⤋
Let's say that your history teacher gives the exact same lecture ten times. Sometimes, most students get "C" grades; other times, most get "B" grades. Same action, different outcomes. Crazy?
How about golfers. They use their drivers to tee off. It's exactly the same every time. But the outcomes are never identical. Crazy?
A factory worker spends 8 hours a day, five days a week putting a red nut on a yellow bolt. Crazy?
Yet, the teacher keeps on teaching, the golfer keeps golfing, and the factory worker goes back to work week after week.
Why?
The answer is that each is getting some type of secondary gain. The teacher may "know" that she is getting through to some students some times; the golfer enjoys the challenge of hitting a second shot from different parts of the course; and the factory worker realizes that the paycheck puts food on the table.
Leon Festinger's "Theory of Cognitive Dissonance" hypothesizes that perfectly normal people will do "crazy" things under certain conditions. Hundreds of social psychologists have tested this hypothesis and confirm it.
2006-07-24 04:56:38 · answer #2 · answered by Goethe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's also insanity to do the same thing repeatedly, knowing the same foul results await. If that's a person's work experience, to some degree, yup!
2006-07-24 04:01:32 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ya its insane but theres a difference the job pays the bills ....ever heard taht song yall gona make me loose my mind up in here up in here?? I lsiten to that song jsut before going to work oh the song is by DMX..good question
2006-07-24 02:52:11 · answer #4 · answered by Jenny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and everytime you go, you go further down that hole. HEE HEE HEE. Oh sorry. I just got off work. Then again, maybe it's done out of fear of starvation or living on the street.
2006-07-24 02:52:32 · answer #5 · answered by stevenhendon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yup, that's why I quit and went to work for myself!
2006-07-24 02:51:10 · answer #6 · answered by DEATH 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋