Explanations For Obedience Flashcards
What is the agentic state?
Where you feel as though you have no personal responsibility for your behaviour as you are acting for an authoritative figure
What is an autonomous state?
Where someone feels in full control of their behaviour and accepts personal responsibility for their actions?
What is agentic shift?
Where your responsibility changes
What is legitimacy of authority?
Where we are socialised to recognise the authority of people like parents , teachers, students police, doctors.
What can increase legitimacy of authority?
Uniform and the power to punish
What supports the idea of agentic state?
Milligrams study , obedience fell when the instructions were given to the students behind a phone rather than in real life.
Without the presence of an authoritative figure , participants shift to an autonomous state and take full responsibility for their actions.
What is a limitation of agentic state and seems to be ‘plain cruelty’?
Research shows that when a nazi solider was given the option between killing someone or completing another task . He took the task to kill someone. This suggests that some individuals are plain cruel and will do certain things to satisfy their own sadistic impulses.
What supports legitimacy of authority?
Participants were more likely to obey authority in a prestigious setting
What was bickmans supporting argument to legitimacy of authority?
When a stranger was dressed in uniform people were more likely to give money.
