Obedience
- Created by: Chloe Trotter
- Created on: 18-11-15 16:48
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- Obedience
- Milgram
- Participants gave fake electric shocks to a 'learner' as instructed by the examiner
- Cross culture studies support.
- Situation variables
- Proximity
- Obedience decreased to 40% when the 'teacher' could hear the 'learner' yell
- Uniform
- Obedience decreased to 20% when the examinor wore civilian clothes instead of a lab coat
- Bickmans study supports this
- Obedience decreased to 20% when the examinor wore civilian clothes instead of a lab coat
- Location
- Obedience decreased to 47.5% when the facility changed from a lab to a run down office block
- Proximity
- Orne and Holland said that people naturally distrust an examiner.
- Participants were interviewed after Milgrams study and said that they hadn't realised the shocks were not being given.
- 100% gave up to 300v shocks
- 65% gave the highest shock 450v.
- Killing shock
- 65% gave the highest shock 450v.
- Evaluation
- Ethical issues
- Defied the participant meaning they couldn't give informed consent
- Couldn't withdraw until the forth 'prod' so it seemed like you were being denied
- Low internal validity because participants could have figured out it was fake
- Game of death TV show showed 80% players would give the maximum shock
- Hoffling found that 21/22 nurses obeyed authority
- High external validity
- Game of death TV show showed 80% players would give the maximum shock
- High external validity
- Ethical issues
- Some participants showed signs of anxiety
- Participants gave fake electric shocks to a 'learner' as instructed by the examiner
- Obedience because of peoples influence
- Legitimacy of authority
- Created by societies hierarchy
- Destructive authority
- E.g. Hitler
- Supported by Bickmans study on uniform
- Agentic state
- Feeling no personal responsibility because you believe you are acting for an authority figure
- Acting as an agent of another
- Cannot explain why some people disobeyed in Milgrams study
- Agentic shift
- Shifting from an autonomous state to the agentic state
- Autonomous state is being free to act upon your own conscious
- Shifting from an autonomous state to the agentic state
- Binding factors allow people to ignore damaging effects of their actions
- Research support from Blass and schmitt who showed Milgrams study to a class
- Asked who they believed would have to take responsibility if the man died
- They said the authority figure
- Asked who they believed would have to take responsibility if the man died
- Feeling no personal responsibility because you believe you are acting for an authority figure
- Legitimacy of authority
- Adorno
- The authoritarian personailty
- Used the F-scale to study unconscious attitudes towards racial groups
- Fascism
- White, middle-class Americans
- High scores meant you were more authoritarian
- Submissive to people higher on societies hierarchy and dismissive of those lower
- Extreme respect for authority leads to obedience
- Fixed cognative style
- Thought to be caused by harsh/strict parenting
- Causes hostility that is displaced onto those weaker
- Positive correlation between authoritarian personality and obediance
- Does not mean it is the cause/only causing factor
- Some of milgrams participants had this personality type
- There are better theories
- Social identity
- Used the F-scale to study unconscious attitudes towards racial groups
- The authoritarian personailty
- Milgram
- Could have caused psychological damage
- Milgram didn't know the experiment would go so far
- Ethical issues
- Defied the participant meaning they couldn't give informed consent
- Couldn't withdraw until the forth 'prod' so it seemed like you were being denied
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