Obedience
- Created by: Laura
- Created on: 23-12-13 21:09
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- Obedience
- Compliance with an order, request or law to another's authority
- Destructive Obedience - obeying orders despite morals, seen in soldiers
- Why do we obey? Fear, convenience, authority, persuasion, location, coersion
- Authoritarian Personality - state of mind or attitude characterised in belief of absolute obedience.
- Link to Nazi Germany - hypothesis by Adorno that 'Germans are different'
- Study on Obedience - Milgram - Shock Experiment
- Context - Hitler and Nazi Germany, 'Germans are different' Adolf Eichmann said he was 'only following orders' when he was found responsible for thousands of holocaust deaths
- Aim - to find out how obedient individuals would be in a controlled situation
- Participants - 40 men aged 20-50yrs from USA
- The Experiment: Lab Experiment: has internal validity, lacks ecological and population validity
- Ethical Issues - protection from harm, deception
- Alternative research - Burger (2007) got similar results (time validity & reliability), Sheridan and King (1972) got similar results but found women obey more, Hofling (1966) did in a real life setting
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