dispositional factors

Question 1

What is a dispositional factor?

Answer 1

Internal explanation e.g. authoritarian personality

Question 2

Characteristics of an authoritarian personality

Answer 2

• suppress their own beliefs and completely obey authority
• hostile to those who are inferior
• no fuzziness
• fixed distinctive stereotypes
• strict parents = displace anger from them onto weaker targets

Question 3

Adorno et al

Answer 3

• studied unconscious attitudes towards minority groups = 2000 middle class Americans
• f scale = likert = questionnaire
• fascist tendencies = extreme right wing tendencies
• individuals who scored highly has an authoritarian personality