1.7: The external explanation Flashcards
When you are a passenger on a train, you are much more likely to move to another seat if the ticket collector tells you to move than if another passenger tells you to do so.
Use your knowledge of why people obey to explain this behaviour (4 marks)
On a train, it is likely that the ticket collector is seen as having legitimate authority and so will be obeyed
When you are a passenger on a train, you are much more likely to move to another seat if the ticket collector tells you to move than if another passenger tells you to do so.
Use your knowledge of why people obey to explain this behaviour (4 marks).
On a train, it is likely that the ticket collector is seen as having legitimate authority and so will be obeyed.
However, what?
However, another passenger does not have such authority and so is unlikely to be obeyed
When you are a passenger on a train, you are much more likely to move to another seat if the ticket collector tells you to move than if another passenger tells you to do so.
Use your knowledge of why people obey to explain this behaviour (4 marks).
On a train, it is likely that the ticket collector is seen as having legitimate authority and so will be obeyed.
However, another passenger does not have such authority and so is unlikely to be obeyed.
What is there also the power of?
There is also the power of the uniform that the ticket collector wears
Explain how proximity and location can affect obedience (4 marks)
Proximity is the physical distance between someone obeying an order and being aware of the consequences of doing so
Explain how proximity and location can affect obedience (4 marks).
Proximity is the physical distance between someone obeying an order and being aware of the consequences of doing so.
When proximity becomes closer, what?
When proximity becomes closer, participants are less able to divorce themselves from the consequences of their behaviour, and thus obedience rates are lower
Explain how proximity and location can affect obedience (4 marks).
Proximity is the physical distance between someone obeying an order and being aware of the consequences of doing so.
When proximity becomes closer, participants are less able to divorce themselves from the consequences of their behaviour, and thus obedience rates are lower.
What can location affect?
Location can affect the perception of legitimate authority
Explain how proximity and location can affect obedience (4 marks).
Proximity is the physical distance between someone obeying an order and being aware of the consequences of doing so.
When proximity becomes closer, participants are less able to divorce themselves from the consequences of their behaviour, and thus obedience rates are lower.
Location can affect the perception of legitimate authority.
Example
For example, when Milgram’s study was repeated in a run-down office block, obedience dropped from 62.5% to 40%, as this variation had less legitimate authority than when he performed it at Yale University, a prestigious ‘Ivy League’ institution
In a hospital, you are very likely to obey a nurse. However, if you meet her outside the hospital, for example in a shop, you are much less likely to obey.
Using your knowledge of how people resist pressures to obey, explain why you are less likely to obey the nurse outside the hospital (4 marks)
You are less likely to obey the nurse outside the hospital, because you may question the motives of the person giving the order and you may not accept that the nurse giving the order has legitimate authority, because it is outside the hospital
