What is the situational explanation for obedience?
The behaviour is caused by the context in which it occurs
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What is the dispositional explanation for obedience?
The behaviour is the result of the characteristics of the individual
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What are some situational factors?
Proximity of authority
Location
Power of uniform
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What was the aim of Milgram's study?
To see how far people would go in obeying authority even if it involved harming someone
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What was the procedure of Milgram's study?
The teacher watched the learner be strapped up with electrodes but this was a ruse and the responses made by the learner were all pre recorded. At 315 volts the responses cut out. If the learner attempted to stop the experimenter would "prod" the learner
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What is the authoritarian personality?
One characterized by their strict adherence to conventional values and complete submission to authority
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How is the auth. personality formed?
In childhood as a result of strict parenting (extreme discipline, impossibly high standards, severe criticism, conditional love, expectation of absolute loyalty)
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What are the characteristics of an auth. personality in children
Hostility and resentment that can't be directed towards parents that is let out on those that are weaker
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What are the characteristics of an auth. personality in adulthood?
Highly conventional attitudes towards sex, race and gender
Negative outlook on society
Belief in need for strong leadership
Absolutism
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What are some of the strengths of the auth. personality model?
Research support: Elms and Milgram
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What is the dispositional explanation for obedience?
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The behaviour is the result of the characteristics of the individual
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