A type of social influence whereby someone acts in response to a direct order from a percieved authority figure
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What are the 2 social-psychological explanations for obedience ?
Agentic state and Legitimacy of the authority figure
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What is Agentic state ?
where we feel no responsibility for our behaviour because we feel we are acting as an agent for authority figure
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What is legitimacy of authority ?
If we perceive someone to have genuine authority over us this increases obedience levels
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What are the 4 Situational explanations for obedience ?
Location
Proximity of the learner
Proximity of the experimenter
Uniform
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Location in Milgrams study
when he moved the study to a run down office block obedience dropped to 47.7%
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Proximity of the learner (victim)in Milgrams study
when he moved the learner into the same room as the teacher obedience dropped to 40%
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Proximity of the experimenter (authority figure) in Milgrams study
when the experimenter gave instructions via the phone obedience dropped to 20.5%
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Uniform in Milgrams study
when the experimenter was someone wearing everyday clothes, obedience dropped to 20%
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What is the authoritarian personality ?
someone who:
submits to those in a higher position
hostile with those in lower positions
shows exessive obedience to authority
has a preoccupation with power
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Adorno et al
Adorno developed an attitude questionnaire (F-scale) which measures aspects of personalitry such as conventionism, pre-occupation and superstition
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What are the 2 explanations of resistance to social influence ?
Social support and locus of control
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What is social support ?
Social support is how the pressure to obey can be reduced if there is someone else who disobeys. when milgram tested this obedience dropped from 65% to 10%
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What is Locus of control ?
external control - when people believe things happen without their control and it is a matter of luck or external factors
Internal control- when people believe things are controlled by themselves and are responsible
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What is minority influence ?
A form of social influence where a minority persuades others to adopt teir beliefs, attitudes or behaviours
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What is consistency ?
when the minority are consistent in their views so increases the interest from other people and leads them to rethink their views
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what is commitment ?
when the minority enage in extreme activities that pose a risk to get people to pay more attention
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what is flexibility ?
when the minority are prepared to change their view and accept reasonable and valid counter-arguments
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What are the 2 social-psychological explanations for obedience ?
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Agentic state and Legitimacy of the authority figure
Card 3
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What is Agentic state ?
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Card 4
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What is legitimacy of authority ?
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Card 5
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What are the 4 Situational explanations for obedience ?
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