dispositional explanations for obedience Flashcards

1
Q

what is the authoritarian personality?

A

a type of personality where the individual is completely obedient to a authority figure.

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2
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who came up with the authoritarian personality?

A

Adorno et al

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3
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what type of childhood would people with AP have?

A

strict and harsh upbringings

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4
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who supported the dispositional explanations in 1966?

A

elms and milgrams

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5
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what did elms and milgram do?

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they took 20 obedient pp from milgrams experiment and got them to complete the f scale and the mmpi scale. they also looked at their relationships with their parents.

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what did elm and milgram find?

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they found that the obedient pp showed more signs of authoritarianism.

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