Obedience

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Complying with an order from another person, usually an authoritative figure, to carry out and action
Obedience
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Conducted a study in 1963 to determine how far an ordinary person would obey an unreasonable order
Milgram
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Carried out a field experiment with and without authoritative social role to determine the 'power of a uniform'
Bickman
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We are taught form an early age to adhere to the wishes of particular hierarchical figures (teachers, policemen, goverment bodies)
Legitimate authority
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Agreeing to carry out an order in small stages
Graduated commitment
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The type of person who has extreme respect for authority and is very obedient to those who have power over them; they may also be hostile to those considered a lower 'rank'
Authoritarian personality
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Who proposed the authoritarian personality
Adorno
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Conducted a study in 1963 to determine how far an ordinary person would obey an unreasonable order

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Milgram

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Carried out a field experiment with and without authoritative social role to determine the 'power of a uniform'

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We are taught form an early age to adhere to the wishes of particular hierarchical figures (teachers, policemen, goverment bodies)

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Card 5

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Agreeing to carry out an order in small stages

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