dispositional factors in obedience

Question 1

who conducted the research about obedience and it’s dispositional factors ?

Answer 1

Adorno

Question 2

what is dispositional explanation ?

Answer 2

• an explanation of behaviour that highlights the importance of the individual’s personality.such explanations are often contrasted with situational explanations

Question 3

what is authoritarian personality ?

Answer 3

• a type of personalty that adorno argued was especially susceptible to obeying people in authority.such individuals are also thought to be submissive to those of higher status and dismissive inferior

Question 4

what did Adorno want to understand ?

Answer 4

• the antisemitism of the holocaust

Question 5

what did Adorno’s research lead him to conclude ?

Answer 5

• a psychodynamic explanation,where obedience lies in the personality of the individual rather than situation

Question 6

what did Adorno believe about obedience ?

Answer 6

• that high levels of obedience was a psychological disorder (pathological)

Question 7

through what characteristic is authoritarian personality dispositional explanation

Answer 7

• an extreme respect for authority
• ## view society as weaker than it once was

Question 8

what did adorno et al say that

Question 9

what did adorno think to be the origins of the authoritarian personality ?

Answer 9

• it’s the result of harsh parenting
• strict discipline
• absolute loyalty
• impossible high standards
  -severe criticism of perceived failings
• conditional love

Question 10

what did adorno argue about the childhood experiences ?

Answer 10

• they create resentment which can’t be voiced due to fear and high demand of loyalty

Question 11

when does displacement occur ?

Answer 11

• when feelings are placed onto others –> this is known as scapegoating

Question 12

what does scapegoating explain ?

Answer 12

the hatred for people considered to be inferior or belong to other groups