Obedience

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Why is the definition of obedience?
A form of social influence in which a person yields to explicit instructions or orders from an authority figure
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How is obedience distinguished from compliance and conformity?
Conformity is influenced by peers. Compliance is influence to match majority.
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How did Milgram study Obedience?
Tested whether a person would give an electric shot to another, purely because they were told to.
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How does Milgars study lack realism and internal validity?
Can be argued ppts behaved the way the did because they didn't believe in the set up and knew the shocks were fake. Therefore study didn't test hat it intended to
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What are the ethical issues associated with Milgrams study?
Led ppts to believe that the teacher and learner allocation was random, when it was fixed. Deceived ppts into believing shocks were real - damaging reputation of Milgram. However deception was necessary to replicate a real situation.
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What is an advantage into Milgrams research?
Good external validity - he argued his study of the relationship between obedience and authority under controlled conditions is reflective of relationships in wider world. Hofling fake-doctor phone call test, supports Milgrams study.
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How any situational variables were there in Milgrams study, and what are they?
3 - Proximity, Location and Uniform
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How did Milgram change proximity in variations of his study?
Obedience fell to 40% when T and L were sat in same room. It fell to 30% when T forced the hand of L onto shock plate. Fell to 21% when observer left the room
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How did Milgram change uniform in variations of his study?
Uniform of the observer was changed from lab-coat to everyday clothing, resulting in the drop of obedience rates.
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How did Milgram change location in variations of his study?
Original study was at Yale Uni in a psychology lab - ppts said study seemed real de to link to Uni. Moved the study to a run-down office with no obvious connections to Yale. Obedience levels dropped slightly, with 48% of ppts delivering 450 v shock
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What can be argued about Adornos research findings?
e found significant correlations, however these correlations are not causations.
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What are the methodological problems in Adornos study?
A limitation of the authoritarian personality, e.g every one of its terms are worded in the same 'direction'
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Why is there political bias in Adornos study?
its based upon the F-scale that measures the tendency towards an extreme form of right-living ideology
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True or False: Adornos study into APs is a limited explanation of obedience in terms of individual personality
True
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