Explanations of obedience
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- Created on: 17-05-14 10:53
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- Explanations of obedience
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- Legitimate Authority - authority that is recognised as legitimate and justified by both the ruler and the ruled
- e.g. in Milgram's experiment, the experimenter is perceived to hold this authority
- Legitimate Authority - authority that is recognised as legitimate and justified by both the ruler and the ruled
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- Gradual Commitment - pp's have already committed themselves to giving lower level shocks, therefore harder to resist experimenter's requests of higher shocks
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- Buffers - teacher and learner are in separate rooms - the teacher being protected (buffered) from having to see his victim
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- Agentic Shift - where people see themselves as an agent carrying out the instructions of another person
- e.g. in Milgram's experiment the participant is taking orders from the expeimenter
- Agentic Shift - where people see themselves as an agent carrying out the instructions of another person
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- Disposition - authoritarian personality does not want to give orders, they want to take orders - seeks conformity, security
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- Situation - people underestimate the power of the situation to influence and shape their behaviour
- e.g. when the venue of the experiment was changed to a rundown office obedience decreased
- Situation - people underestimate the power of the situation to influence and shape their behaviour
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