obedience- social psychological factors
- Created by: ashbrook.niamh
- Created on: 01-03-20 18:47
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- obedience- social psychological factors
- agentic state
- occurs when you perceive someone to be in a position of authority over you
- occurs through the agentic shift
- a shift from the autonomous stage to agency
- autonomous = independence
- responisbility for one's actions
- when an agent, you do not feel responsible for your own actions
- they feel high anxiety once they realise what they're doing is wrong
- moral strain
- they feel high anxiety once they realise what they're doing is wrong
- autonomous = independence
- a shift from the autonomous stage to agency
- to stay in the agentic state, there must be binding factors
- aspects of a situation which allow us to minimise the effect of damage their behaviour
- it relieves moral strain
- aspects of a situation which allow us to minimise the effect of damage their behaviour
- legitimacy of authority
- when authorative figures possess power over us because society says they do in the hierarchy
- e.g parents or teachers
- some can take their authority and use it to manipulate others
- we have to trust people to exercise their power accordingly
- we first accept this in childhood through parents
- evaluation
- research support
- students were shown a clip of milgram's experiment and were asked who was responisble for the harm done to the C
- they identified the experimenter as they had legitimate and expert authority
- legitimate authoruity can be an explanation for obedience
- they identified the experimenter as they had legitimate and expert authority
- students were shown a clip of milgram's experiment and were asked who was responisble for the harm done to the C
- reductionistic
- doesn't explain why some of Milgram's participants don't obey
- simplifies complex behaviour so we understand why the majority obey
- research support
- agentic state
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