Areas And Debates - Bocchiaro Et Al

Question 1

Free will determinism

Answer 1

Determinism
Many more people were obedient than they believed
Free will
Some people disobeyed or were whistleblowers so they controlled their own behaviour

Question 2

Usefulness

Answer 2

Useful
Used by other people to repeat it in other places times to see if obedience is more or less likely
Not useful
Bad employers could believe that they can ask employers an unethical request and they will do it

Question 3

Link to area

Answer 3

Confirming the influence that others have on behaviour

Question 4

Link to key theme

Answer 4

People are as obedience now than they were in the 1960’s, people in Netherlands are the same as the USA and people are more obedient than we believe - doesn’t change our understanding

Question 5

Changing understanding of diversity

Answer 5

It doesn’t as the results were the same as milgram

Question 6

Individual situational

Answer 6

Individual
14.1&9.4% disobeyed or was a whistleblower which suggests there are individual factors which enable some people to resist temptation
However no sig differences were found out the dispositional measures suggesting that it was the situation
Situation
76.5% obeyed which shows power
3.6% said they would be obedient in the predictions which suggests the situation had a strong effect