Obedience: dispositional factors

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does the authoritarian personality theory support or oppose Milgram's theories of obedience?
oppose them; it states that obedience is due to a psychological disorder. a persons disposition
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how many people did adorno et al study in their investigation into obedience?
2000
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who were the participants
white middle class americans
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what does the F-scale measure?
the potential for fascism and to test authoritarian personality
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what does a high score on the F-scale suggest
a high degree of fascism and authoritarian personality
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what are the mental characteristics of people with authoritarian personalities?
they tend to identify with the 'strong' and hold contempt for the weak. very conscious of status and power
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what cognitive characteristics did people with authoritarian personalities have?
they were very clear in their minds about certain catagories of people
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what kind of correlation was there between those with authoritarian personalities and prejudice
a strong one. authoritarian personalities tended to hold the most prejudice.
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in terms of obedience, how to people with authoritarian personalities tend to react?
they are usually very obedient and greaty respect authority
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what kind of attitudes do they have towards sex race and gender?
very conventional views, they tend to be very straight cut
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how do they feel about uncertainty
very uncomfortable.
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what causes an authoritarian personality
strict parenting.
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what are the characteristics of this strict parenting?
conditional love, high standards and little forgiveness for wrong doings.
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how does this style of parenting translate into the actions of authoritarian personalities?
they feel a lot of resentment for their raising but cant express it directly to their parents so they take it out on others who have a lower status than them.
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what kind of an explanation is the displacement explanation
a psychodynamic explanation
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why cant we trust the authoritarian personality explanation of obedience alone?
because it is merely a correlation. NOT a dirent cause and effect.
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why can't dispositonal factors explain mass obedience e.g. in whole countries
because there are large numbers of people - not all of them will have authoritarian personalities yet they still obeyed.
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why is this a limitation of this explanation?
because it doesnt apply to all people. it can't explain a large number of cases.
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what was the methodological issue with adorno's f scale?
all of the questions were worded in the same direction.
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what is the consequence of this?
it leads to acquienscence bias. it only measures peoples tendency to agree with everything.
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