Explainations For Obedience Flashcards
What is the agentic state and what does one feel during this stage?
A Person feels like they are acting for someone else. (Working as a agent)
They do not feel responsible for their actions
They experience high anxiety but continue to obey as the feel powerless to disobey.
What is the autonomous state and wha does one feel in this state?
Its the opposite to the agentic state.
One feels independent and free.
They tend to behave according to their own principles and feel responsible for their actions.
What is the agentic shift?
The shift from the autonomous to the agentic state.
Milgram suggests that occurs when a person perceives someone as an authority figure.
What are binding factors?
Aspects of the situation that’s allowed the person to minimise or ignore the damaging effects of their behaviour.
This reduces the moral stain that the ppts were feeling.
What is the legitimacy of authority and how dejes it explain obedience?
We are more likely to our people who we perceive to have authority over us.
When this happens we recognise their authority and a more willing to give up their independence.
However authority cana become d______ when leaders use the legitimate powers for destructive purposes.
Destructive
Strength for agentic state:
P: Research methods
E: In milgrams study many participants resisted giving the shocks but when the researcher pointed out hat they were not responsible they followed the procedure
E: when they don’t feel responsible they act more freely and are more likely to obey
Strength of legitimacy of authority
P: Explains cultural differences
E: Kilharm and Mann (1974) found that only 16% of Australian women have the 450 volt shock. But 85% of German ppts gave the full shock
E: TST in some cultures authority is more likely to be accepted based on the way society views authority.
Weakness of agentic state
P: Limited explanation
E: Doesn’t explain the findings of Rank and Jacobsons study where nurses disobeyed the doctors orders to give an excessive drug dose.
E: the explanation only explains some situations of obedience
Weakness of LOA
P: cannon explain all obedience/ disobedience
E: many of the nurses in Rank and Jacobsons study most were disobedient even though they worked in a strict hierarchal structure + a significant minority disobeyed in milgrams study
E: Some people may just have more or less obedient tendencies that has a stringer influence than legitimacy of authority
