Factors affecting obedience

Question 1

what individual factors affect obedience?

Answer 1

• Locus of Control
• Authoritarian personality
• Gender

Question 2

What is Locus of control?

Answer 2

ROTTER (1966) explains where you identify as the source of your actions, could be:
Internal LoC- think you are responsible for your own actions and aren’t influenced by other factors
External LoC- think your own behaviour is heavily caused/ effected by factors outside of your control like fate

Question 3

what situational factors affect obedience?

Answer 3

• Culture
• moment of compliance
• Agency theory
• Social Impact theory

Question 4

What is authoritarian personality?

Answer 4

submissive to authority but harsh to those they see as subordinate

Question 5

what was found about gender difference? who by?

Answer 5

Burger found that females display higher amount of anxiety
SHERIDAN and KING (1972) adapted milgram’s experiment to involve a live puppy which received real shocks . women much more compliant than men (100% women)

Question 6

what is ‘momentum of compliance’?

Answer 6

e.g milgrams experiment (1963) shocks went up steadily, every 45V, meant that ppt would reach 459V but very steadily