Authoritarian Personality ✅

Question 1

Who studied the authoritarian personality

Answer 1

Adorno

Question 2

Aim

Answer 2

To investigate the cause of obedient behaviour

Question 3

Procedure

Answer 3

Participants were 2000 white middle class Americans. Took part in a study who looked at their unconscious attitudes towards racial groups. In order to test this the f-scale was used. Questions included obedience and respect for authority are he lost important virtues a child should learn and rules are there for people to follow not change

Question 4

Findings

Answer 4

Those who scored high on the f-scale were characterised as showing excessive respect and obedient to those of higher status. They also had strong distinctive opinions about other groups. There was a strong positive correlation between obedience and authoritarian personality

Question 5

Conclusion

Answer 5

Adorno concluded that people of this personality type are obedient

Question 6

Advantages

Answer 6

Using questionnaires are less time consuming as they can just give them out and analyse results
Graphs can be used to analyse and collect results

Question 7

Disadvantages

Answer 7

Lacks population validity as all participants were white middle class Americans can’t generalise

Questionnaires - people may misinterpret what something means some people may lie this means may lack validity

Question 8

Authoritarian personality

Answer 8

A peronality type who is very obedient to those who have power over them