factors affecting obedinace

Question 1

what are the factor that affect obedience?

Answer 1

situation
culture
individual differences
gender

Question 2

who studied into situation?

Answer 2

milgram

Question 3

what did mailgram suggests about obedience?

Answer 3

that obedience is down to situation rather than individual differences

Question 4

why did mailgram state obedience is down to situation?

Answer 4

he found that when he changed the situation in his variations that the level of obedience also charged

Question 5

what variations did mailgram look at?

Answer 5

proximity - 7
status of authority - 13
personal responsilbilty - sign a contract

Question 6

in milgrams personal responsibility variation what did obedience drop to?

Answer 6

40%

Question 7

what are the two type of cultures?

Answer 7

individualistic - tend to resist conformity and compliance, act more independently (UK)
collectivist - behave as a collective group to achieve interdependence compliance is important

Question 8

who conducted the study on culture and obedience?

Answer 8

blass

Question 9

what did blass do?

Answer 9

conducted a met analysis including obedience levels from different studies from 35 curtness

Question 10

what were some of the results for class?

Answer 10

us (bock) 40%
uk (mcguiness) 50%
s africa (edwards) 87.5%

Question 11

what did mailgram and elms do to do with individual differences?

Answer 11

looked at how authoritarian personality creates more obedience

Question 12

what do milgram and elms say about authoritarian personality?

Answer 12

that those with an authoritarian personality are more submissive and obedient to those of a higher authority

Question 13

what is the locus of control?

Answer 13

type of personality

the reasons that give for what happens to them

Question 14

what type of locus of controls are there?

Answer 14

internal and external

Question 15

what is an internal locus of control?

Answer 15

they have control of their actions and they have caused what has happened
they are less influenced by others

Question 16

what is an external locus of control?

Answer 16

believe that what happens to them is out of their control
down to things ushc as fate
easily linked to others

Question 17

what did blass find about locus of control?

Answer 17

he found that internal locus of control was linked to being more resistant to obedience

Question 18

which gender is seen as more submissive?

Answer 18

women due to their lack of aggression

throughout history and stereotypes

Question 19

what did burger find about gender differences?

Answer 19

he found no significant gender differences when administering shocks

Question 20

mailgram did a variation with women what was there obedience level?

Answer 20

65% which was the same for men

Question 21

what did sheridan and king find?

Answer 21

adapted milligrams study and let students give real electric shocks to a live puppy found that all 13 female students were much more obedient and delievered maximum shock compared to men

Question 22

what did kilham and mann find?

Answer 22

that women were much less obedient than men when administering shocls
40% vs 16%

Question 23

what did class find about gender?

Answer 23

did a meta analysis on 10 studies and found that only kilhamm and man showed gender differences in obedience and concluded that there was no gender difference in obedience levels