Destructive Obedience

Question 1

Compliance Definition

Answer 1

going along with a certain belief or behaviour publically

Question 2

Persuasive influence

Answer 2

the act of actually believing interally in the given behaviour or belief.

Question 3

Milgram’s experiments on obedience (1963, 1974)

Answer 3

65% of participants administered the highest possible level of shock in line with the experimenters instructions marked “XXX”. Explanations in that Yale is prestigious university and the study environment creates the assumption all involved have consented and volunteered

Question 4

Agentic State

Answer 4

the condition in which a person is in when he sees himself an agent for carrying out another person’s wishes. A substantial amount of people will do as they are told as long as they perceive that the command comes from legitimate authority.

Question 5

Burger (2009)

Answer 5

Indicated that the person is less likely than milgrams expectations to continue with a lower threshold of 150 volts however still 63% (Milgram 83%)