Factors affecting obedience Flashcards

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What do we mean by personality?

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A series of enduring traits about a person which are consistent across situations

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What are the personality traits which affect obedience?

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Locus of Control, Empathy and Authoritarian personality/Right Wing Authoritarianism

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What are the situational factors which affect obedience?

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1) Momentum of compliance 2) Proximity 3) Legitimacy of authority 4) Responsibility in the situation

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What is gender in terms of obedience research?

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The traits of being male or female which is partially innate via biology and partially through socialisation

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What is meant by momentum of compliance?

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Starting with small requests then gradually increasing them.

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What is empathy?

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Your ability to feel emotions of others

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What is an internal and external locus of control?

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Internal you think you are responsible for your behaviour and external you think it is other factors

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How does Locus of Control impact obedience?

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People with an internal locus of control will be less obedient.

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How does proximity impact obedience?

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The closer the authority figure is when giving the order, the more obedient the target will be.

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What is an issue with looking at personality as an influence on obedience?

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They’re often measured through self-reports making them less valid due to social desirability

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Which study shows the importance of an authority figure?

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Milgram variation 13

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What is used to measure Authoritarian Personality?

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The F-Scale

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What did Milgram & Elms find?

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That the more obedient participants in Milgram’s research scored higher on authoritarian personality.

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How does internal locus of control impact obedience?

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You believe you are responsible for your own actions so are less influenced by authority figures.

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What did Burger find about empathy?

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Burger found that more empathetic people protested more but were no less obedient.

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What did Sheridan & King find?

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That females were more obedient than males when asked to electrocute puppies.

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What is a collectivist culture and what impact does this have on obedience?

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A culture where the group wishes are more important than the individual wishes and it makes them more obedient as they forgo their own wishes to obey for the group benefit

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What did Burger find about gender and obedience?

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Gender had little to no impact on obedience levels

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What did Kilham and Mann find?

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Women were less obedient (16pc vs 40pc)

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What did Dambrun & Vatine (2010) find?

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Those high in the trait of authoritarian personality were less likely to withdraw and more likely to punish.

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What situational factor did the study of Sedekides and Jackson support?

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Authority figure- the zoo keeper got higher obedience than a normally dressed man

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What did Smith and Bond find?

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Collectivist cultures were more obedient than individualistic ones

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When one of Milgrams variations asked participants to sign a contract before taking part in the research which stated they were taking part of their own free will and no legal responsibility would be taken by Yale University, what happened?

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Obedience fell

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What study can be used to demonstrate momentum of compliance?

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Milgram with the shock generator going up in 15v increments

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Which study supports proximity as a factor?

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Milgram variation 7 with the telephone study where 22.5pc obeyed