Explanation of Obedience 1 - Legitimacy of authority

Question 1

What is a legitimate authority figure?

Answer 1

Someone who seems justified to be in an authority position.

Question 2

What might a legitimate authority figure be seen as having?

Answer 2

More expertise, qualifications to power in a particular situation.

Question 3

How are the factors that make someone seem to be a legitimate authority figure often indicated?

Answer 3

Uniform.

Question 4

Where must potentially harmful or disruptive instructions be given for them to be perceived as legitimate?

Answer 4

Within some sort of institutional structure.

Question 5

What will the individual undergo is someone is perceived to be a legitimate authority figure?

Answer 5

They will undergo the agentic shift and been operating in the agent state.

Question 6

How can support for this theory as an explanation of obedience be seen in the work of Milgram?

Answer 6

Location, initial = Yale.
Variation = run down office.
65% to 47.5%