Dispositional Explanation- Authoritarian Personality

Question 1

What is the authoritarian personality?

Answer 1

Dispositional factor

Where they’re traditional, (about sexuality+ gender roles)

Have strict adherence to societal heirarchy - slave to those above

Hatred to weak

Inflexible outlook

Question 2

What was the procedure for authoritarian personality?

Answer 2

• Adorno et al 1950 used F- scale

• likert scale Qu’s (strongly agree/disagree)

• On over 2000 white US men

• higher= more fascist

Question 3

What are the origins of the authoriarian personality?

Answer 3

Strict parenting

Conditional love

Expectation of complete loyalty

Severe critisism of failures

High standards

Question 4

AO3: Weakness of the Authoritarian personality

Prompt: correlational not…

Answer 4

P: link between AP and harsh parenting= only correlational

E: ethically cannot establish cause+ effect

E: therefore we do not know the true cause of AP

Question 5

AO3: Evaluate a strength of the authoritarian personality

Prompt: interviews…

Answer 5

P: Milgram+ Elm= interviewed some from M’s OG study

E: PPTS who were +obedient= +authoritarian on F- scale vs disobedient PPTS

E: suggests there is a link between AP and obedience