Mr. Zaf
The school Mr. Zaf taught at from September 2020 to March 2025.
What is Bishop Reding?
Materials used by a culture.
What are artifacts?
Viewing society as an interrelated web of connections.
What is network sociology?
1.Behaviourism
2.Psychoanalysis
3.Humanism
4.Cognitive
What are the four main schools of psychology?
A messed up person.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The university Mr. Zaf attended for his undergraduate degree.
What is McMaster University?
Variation, heritability, and environmental fitness.
What are the three principles of natural selection?
Gaps in the network structure.
What are structural holes?
Cerebellum, Pons, Medulla
What are the three parts of the hindbrain?
The hypothesis that early hominids developed bipedalism by spending a lot of their time in bodies of water.
What is Alistair Hardy's Aquatic Ape Theory?
Jax
What is Mr. Zaf's dog's name?
The earliest use of stone tools corresponds with increased consumption of animal protein. More animal protein in turn changes the hominid diet and potentially its anatomy.
What is an example of biocultural evolution?
A concept that shows that “being yourself” may be illusory.
What is code switching?
Define IDEAL (Bransford & Stein)
•I — Identify the problem
•D — Define and represent the problem
•E — Explore possible strategies
•A — Action
•L — Look back and evaluate the effects
A psychologist that argued that in order for a person to develop and maintain an experience of a cohesive self, two needs must be met: a need to be “mirrored” (have one’s actions and desires reflected by caregivers) and a need to experience an “other” as idealized.
Who is Heinz Kohut?
A course that Mr. Zaf has taught before that he has not taught since 2024:
What is English?
Primates with mixed sharp and flat teeth for processing vegetation (but sometimes with particularly large incisors).
What are frugivores?
Soft Sell
What is the second step of cult indoctrination?
Stimulus --> initial response diminishes --> opposite response grows stronger
What is the opponent-process theory?
Attempted to show that what most people think of as the permanent truths of human nature and society actually change throughout the course of history.
Who is Michel Foucault?
Mr. Zaf's topic for his Master's Thesis at the University of Ottawa
To what extent does the use of e-readers in inner-city secondary schools impact student achievement and engagement?
Specialized whale-hunting harpoons.
What is an example of colonization of the Arctic?
Women’s suffrage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
What is an example of Relative Deprivation theory?
List the 8 Factors to Increase Conformity & Obedience:
•Emotional distance
•Proximity and legitimacy of authority
•Institutional authority
•Group size
•Unanimity
•Cohesiveness
•Status
•Public response
List and define the three types of pre-sociologists:
•Theologians: They argued that God (or the gods) had a plan for the world, and sacred scriptures might reveal that plan as God (or, again, the gods) intended it to be manifest. Feudal society in Europe and else- where was run jointly by church and state leaders who believed they were running things the way God wanted them to be run.
•Philosophers: Many philosophers believed that the key to successful social organization lay in an accurate understanding of human nature. If philosophers could figure out, by means of reflection, observation, and discussion, what the essence of human nature was, they could design a perfect society. Plato’s Republic, one of the greatest works of classical philosophy, lays out Plato’s vision of an ideal society.
•Historians: Historians looked to the past to understand the present. Many historians were almost sociological in their comparison of past societies with present societies — in fact, the first sociologists were very interested in historical change — whereas others looked to the past for ideals to be emulated in the present. For example, many historians were convinced that when it came to an effective legal system, the ancient Romans had it figured out and that any successful legal system would have to be based on Roman law.