Social Influence - Obedience

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a form of social influence in which an individual follows a direct order
obedience
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study 1 - his research was in a lab with a student, learner and experimenter.It included electric shocks with 40 male participants.
Milgram
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study 1 - the year of his research
1963
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study 1 - the name of the confederate
Mr Wallace
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study 1 - the number of participants who stopped below 300 volts
0
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study 1 - the number if participants who stopped at 300 volts
5
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study 1 - the number of participants who continued to 450 volts
26
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these are factors which influenced the level of obedience shown by the participants
situational variables
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the physical closeness of an authority figure to the person
proximity
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the place where an order is given
location
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people in positions of authority often have a specific outfit
uniform
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a mental state where we feel no personal responsibility for our behaviour because we believe we are doing it for the authority figure
Agentic state
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an explanation for obedience which suggests that we are likely to obey people who be perceive to have authority over us
legitimacy of authority
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a mental state where someone is solely responsible for their actions as they are independent and free from authority
autonomous state
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any explanation of behaviour that highlights the importance off their personality
dispositional explanation
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study 2 - a type of personality that he argued was especially susceptible to obeying people
authoritarian personality
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study 2 - he investigated the cause of the obedient personality, included 200 middle-class white Americans
adorno
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study 2 - this scale was developed to measure authoritarian personalities
fascism scale
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study 1 - his research was in a lab with a student, learner and experimenter.It included electric shocks with 40 male participants.

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Milgram

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study 1 - the year of his research

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study 1 - the name of the confederate

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study 1 - the number of participants who stopped below 300 volts

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