Authoritarian personality

Question 1

AO1s?

Answer 1

AP
F-Scale

Question 2

AO1 - AP

Answer 2

• internal characteristics
• Fromm (1941)
• hierachal, authoritarian parenting, social learning, imitation

Question 3

AO1 - F-scale

Answer 3

• 30 questions
• 9 personality dimensions
• The f-scale includes questions such as “Nobody ever learnt anything really important except through suffering”
• High F-Scale scores demonstrated that the individual has an authoritarian personality

Question 4

AO3s?

Answer 4

AO3 – credibility (+)
AO3 – ecological validity (-)
AO3- practical value (-)
AO3- Generalisability (-)

Question 5

AO3 – credibility (+)

Answer 5

E: For instance, Elms and Milgram (1966) did a follow-up on participants from Milgram’s original study, featuring 20 ‘obedient’ and 20 ‘defiant’ participants and found that the ‘obedient’ participants scored higher on the F-Scale and were more admirable of the researcher than the ‘defiant’ participants

validated -> compelling -> credible -> nomothwtic -> pc -> more theoretical value

Question 6

AO3 – ecological validity (-)

Answer 6

E: For instance, it is very unlikely that the whole German population during Nazi occupation had an authoritarian personality

cant adequately -> predict -> pc -> credibility

Question 7

AO3- practical value (-)

Answer 7

E: For instance, in a variation of Milgram’s study (1966) himself and Elms found that scoring higher on the F-scale meant a higher likelihood of having an Authoritarian personality.

correlational

Question 8

AO3- Generalisability (-)

Answer 8

E: For example, when testing authoritarian personality and obedience within Nazi Occupation, not all those who obeyed Hitler’s commands were likely to have more of an authoritarian personality- they may’ve scored higher on the F scale

not account for everyone -> compelling -> reduce explanatory poweerperhaps combined w multi-dimensional