Dispositional Flashcards
Adorno coined phrase for person with unquestioning obedience as
Authoritarian personality
It stemmed from
Childhood
Having harsh parents
Impossible standards
Conditional love
Mnemonic to remember traits
SWACCA
Submissive to authority World is black and white Adheres to social structure Contempt for those of lower status Conventional Attitudes to social issues
Hostility meant for parents is displaced onto
those of lower status
key study
Adorno et al
Sampled
200 middle class white americans
What is the measurement
F-scale
Those that scored highly tended to
Show contempt for weak
Identify well with strong individuals
AO3 plans
Elms and Milgram Doesnt explain real life Politically biased f-scale F-scale flawed Correlations
Elms and Milgram
Interviewed pp from milgrams study
completed f-scale
Asked open ended questions about upbringing, authority
Higher f-scale in those most obedient in the study
Doesnt explain real life why
Millions of germans showed anti-semitic attitudes
Cant all have authoritarian personality
Social identity theory works better
They identified with an anti-semitic stance
Cannot be generalised
Who said F-scale was politically biased
and why
Christie and Jahoda Measures extreme right wing tendencies Ignores the idea of extreme left wing tendencies E.g. Chinese Maoism Not comprehensive
Who said flawed methodology
and why
Greenstein Comedy of methodological issues All questions directioned same way Really measures tendency to agree Reduces validity
