Dispositional explanation to obedience Flashcards
authoritarian personality AO1 and AO3
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key features of authoritarian personality
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- highly obedient and submissive to higher status/authority
- dismissive/prejudiced towards those of lower status
- rigid black and whit thinking good v bad
2
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how is the authoritarian personality developed
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- harsh parenting
- child scared to stand up to harsh parents - highly obedient and submissive
- takes out repressed anger on others considered weaker-ppl different from them
3
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links the personality to obedience
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ppts who went to 450v also had an authoritarian personality
4
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adorno et al procedure
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measured 2000 middle class white americans and their unconscious attitudes to other racial groups using the f-scale
5
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f-scale
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measures whether a person has an authoritarian personality through the potential for fascism
6
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f- scale quotes
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- ” obedience and respect for authority are the most important values children should be taught”
- “rules are there to be followed not broken”
- ” if you’re upset you should keep it to yourself”
- 40+ strongly authoritarian
- 30-39 authoritarian
7
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adorno et al findings
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- identified with strong, pitied weak
- aware theirs and others social status
- extreme flattery to authority
- patronised lower statuses
- driven by stereotypes and prejudice
8
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causes of the authoritarian personality
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- strict parents with expectations of loyalty, impossibly high standards, and conditional love
- creates hostility and despair in child
9
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right wing scale authoritarianism
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- developed by altemeyer 1981
- f-scale replaced with a measure of right wing affliation
10
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PEEL strengths
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- research support (virtual versions of milgrams experiment still produced the same results
- political attitudes are a determining influence (milgram’s study as game show, left wingers obeyed the least)
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PEEL limitations
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- contradictory evidence (obedience dropped in run down office due to environmental/social factors not dispositional
- education may determine levels of obedience (less educated people more authoritative)
