Authoritarian personality

Question 1

What type of obedience explanation is the authoritarian personality?

Answer 1

Dispositional explanation

Question 2

What is the authoritarian personality?

Answer 2

A distinct personality pattern characterised by strict adherence to conventional values + a belief in absolute submission to authority

Question 3

What is an authoritarian personality typically the result of?

Answer 3

Harsh/strict/rigid parenting

Question 4

What did Altemeyer propose?

Answer 4

Right-wing authoritarianism

Question 5

What are the 3 characteristics of RWA?

Answer 5

Conventionalism, authoritarian aggression + authoritarian submission

Question 6

What is conventionalism?

Answer 6

Adherence to conventional norms and values

Question 7

What is authoritarian aggression?

Answer 7

Aggressive feelings towards people who violate conventional norms + values

Question 8

What is authoritarian submission?

Answer 8

Uncritical submission to legitimate authority

Question 9

How is the authoritarian personality type measured?

Answer 9

Using the F-scale

Question 10

What does the F-scale stand for?

Answer 10

Fascism scale

Question 11

Who created the F-scale?

Answer 11

Adorno

Question 12

Give an example of statements in the F scale.

Answer 12

Rules are there for people to follow

Question 13

Who conducted research into the authoritarian personality?

Answer 13

Elms and Milgram

Question 14

Who were Elms + Milgram’s participants?

Answer 14

Participants from one of Milgram’s past experiments

Question 15

What were the 2 groups in Elms + Milgram’s study?

Answer 15

Obedient (those who went to 450v) and disobedient (those who didn’t go to 450v)

Question 16

What 2 things were used to measure authoritarian levels in Elms + Milgram’s participants?

Answer 16

The F-scale and the MMPI

Question 17

In Elms and Milgram’s study, what were the participants questioned on?

Answer 17

Their parental relationships

Question 18

What was found with the MMPIs of Elms and Milgram’s participants?

Answer 18

There was little difference between defiant and obedient participants

Question 19

Which of Elms and Milgram’s groups scored more authoritarian on the F-scale?

Answer 19

The obedient group

Question 20

What did Elms and Milgram find about the parental relationships of the obedient participants?

Answer 20

Worse relationships with their fathers

Question 21

What are the 4 AO3 points of the authoritarian personality?

Answer 21

1) Overlooks other factors
2) Education may determine authoritarianism
3) Lacks ecological validity
4) Methodological issues

Question 22

What factors does the authoritarian personality explanation of obedience overlook?

Answer 22

Situational factors - proximity, location + uniform

Question 23

In Milgram’s proximity variation, what did obedience drop to?

Answer 23

44%

Question 24

What type of relationship is there between obedience and authoritarianism?

Answer 24

Positive correlation

Question 25

What can we not establish between obedience and auhtoritarianism?

Answer 25

A cause + effect relationship

Question 26

Are less educated people likely to be more or less authoritarian?

Answer 26

More authoritarian

Question 27

What did Milgram find regarding education levels?

Answer 27

Less educated people are more likely to obey

Question 28

Instead of authoritarianism, what may obedience be correlated with?

Answer 28

Education levels

Question 29

What can't the authoritarian personality explanation explain under any circumstances?

Answer 29

Why large groups of people obey

Question 30

Give an example of a real life occurrence where a mass group of people obeyed.

Answer 30

The Germans obeying Hitler during WW2

Question 31

What type of bias does the F-scale suffer from?

Answer 31

Acquiesce bias

Question 32

What is acquiesce bias?

Answer 32

A phenomenon where individuals are likely to agree with something regardless of how they actually feel

Question 33

Why may the F-scale suffer from acquiescence bias?

Answer 33

All statements are worded in the same direction

Question 34

What bias might the F-scale be subject to?

Answer 34

Social desirability bias

Question 35

Why is the F-scale politically bias?

Answer 35

It does not account for left wing authoritarianism