authoritarian personality

Question 1

what is Adorno’s F scale study?

Answer 1

• studied personality with questionnaires - questions revealed unconscious feelings to minority groups.

Question 2

what does a high score mean?

Answer 2

showed high respect for people with higher social status, had fixed stereotype expectations and identified with ‘strong’ people

Question 3

What did Adorno suggest about how people had higher scores than others?

Answer 3

• early strict authoritarian parenting

Question 4

Limitations of Adorno’s study?

Answer 4

• biased sample (middle class)
• strict parenting may only be a correlation not a cause
• lacked internal validity as all questions were labelled in one direction, meaning that if you agreed with every question you’ll be labelled as an authoritarian

Question 5

strength?

Answer 5

found many significant correlations - for example authoritarianism correlated with prejudice against minorities