Agentic State

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What is a social-psychological explanation?
Concerns of the influence of others on an individuals behaviour
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What explantation does the Agentic state support?
social-psychological
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When does the agentic state occur?
When we act as the agent of someone in authority, we find it easy to deny personal responsibility for our actions. "Just following orders"
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What is another word for agent?
Representative
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The agentic shift is made up of 2 ways of acting, what are these ways?
Autonomous state. Agent state
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What is the autonomous state?
Direct from their own behaviour take responsibility for the consequences.
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What is the agentic state?
Allows others to direct behaviour, pass over responsibility
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How does the agent shift work?
moving from the autonomous state to the agent state by being confronted with an authority figure
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What is moral strain?
What you experience as you obey and order that goes against your conscience, in order to function as an agent
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What is meant by a binding factor?
Aspects of a situation that allow a person to minimise the damaging effect of their behaviour- These make people feel unable to stop the order they just obeyed
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How can the agentic state be applied to Milgrams study?
Can be argued that the teachers shift to the agent state when they hear the scream of the learner. T would allow others to take responsibility because although they're obeying to an act against their conscience, the observer said they must carry on
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What is meant by sequential nature of the action?
Sequential nature of the action is the idea that disobedience causes a sense of cognitive dissonance, because rebelling forces the subject to admit that everything they had done to that point was wrong.
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How can anxiety be linked to obedience?
Anxiety is the idea that when you think about disobedience, you start to feel anxious, naturally, you shy from that feeling.
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What are 2 binding factors in Milgrams study of obedience?
Sequential nature of the action. Anxiety.
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