Explanation Of Obedience:hofling And Milgrim

Question 1

Agentic state

Answer 1

Move from a sense of taking personal responsibility anoumas state to to where you believe you are acting on behalf of authority figure (agentic state ) also know as agentic shift

Question 2

In agentic state what happens to the personality ?

Answer 2

There is loss of personal responsibility individual no longer feels guilt for there actions as they believe they are carrying out wishes from a more knowledgble authority figure

Question 3

Legitimacy of authority

Answer 3

More likely to obey such as police who have authority

Accept authority as uniform and also accept credentials

We obey because it is engramed into us since child hood

Question 4

What explanation is hofling research

Answer 4

Legitimacy of authority (Ao3) strength

Question 5

What did hofling do ?

Answer 5

Had nurses who answered a telephone and were given instructions from an unknown doctor

told to give a lethal dose of a drug

21/22 obeyed

They did it because they believed uknown doctor had authority over the

Question 6

What was milgrims nurse research and explanation for ?

Answer 6

Agentic state

Question 7

State the strength for agentic state (milgrim )

Answer 7

Was done by Milgrim

All participants stopped to a certain point

Ppt said who is responsible if learner is harmed

Experimenter said they are responsible

Ppt continued the electric shocks once they believed they were no longer resistible for the action they continued to obey

Question 8

What is an alternate explanation for legitimacy of authority ?

Answer 8

A weakens could be due to dispositional factors

Obedience could be due to authoritarian personality

Internal characteristics could be the reason why

Eg upbringing personality or strict parenting

For example having extreme respect for authority due to there upbringing

Suggesting obedience may not just be due to loa and agentic state

Weaning the explanations of obedience

Question 9

Ao3 agentic state weakness German Nazi

Answer 9

Research to contradict was by mandel

Described one incident involving German Nazi soldiers where men obeyed to shoot civilians in a small town in Poland

However they were told before hand that they could be given other duties instead

Contradicts agentic state as an explanation of obedience as soldiers chose to shoot civilians over the other duties

Meaning that they would not be able to place the blame on the authority figure