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.
2
Q
who came up with the authoritarian personality?
A
Adorno et al
3
Q
what type of childhood would people with AP have?
A
strict and harsh upbringings
4
Q
who supported the dispositional explanations in 1966?
A
elms and milgrams
5
Q
what did elms and milgram do?
A
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.
6
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what did elm and milgram find?
A
they found that the obedient pp showed more signs of authoritarianism.
