Factors effecting obedience: personality and gender Flashcards

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What is personality?

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A relatively stable set of traits about a person which remain constant between situation.

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What is gender?

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A trait which is particularly due to biology and particularly due to environment which correlates with the sex of a person.

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What is authoritarian personality?

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Where a person is more submissive to an authority figure.

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Does authoritarian personality make someone more or less obedient?

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More

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What is the internal locus of control?

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Believing they are responsible for their own actions and are less influenced by others.

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Does internal locus of control make someone more or less obedient?

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Less.

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What is the external locus of control?

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More influenced by an authority figure and are less responsible for their own actions.

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Does the external locus of control make someone more or less obedient?

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More.

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What is empathy?

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The ability to understand and share feelings of another person.

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How does empathy effect obedience?

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People who have higher level of empathy are less likely to hurt someone even under authority figure orders.

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What are gender sterotypes?

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Make people perceive genders as less or more authoritive to them or to other people.

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What is some studies to show gender does not effect obedience?

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-Burger(2009): Repeated Milgram’s research on males and females and found no difference between the genders.

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What is a study to prove gender effects obedience?

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-Sheridan and King (1972):Adapted Milgram’s study, using a live puppy as a victim finding all 13 females ppt were more compliant (delivering maximum shock levels) compared to men.

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What was Blass’s study (1999) on gender?

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Across 10 pieces of research he reviewed 9 of them obedience rates were consistent for males and females (no gender differences).

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What study does not prove empathy effects obedience levels?

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Burger(2009): although people who score high in empathy show more protest against giving electric shock, it does not translate to lower levels of obedience.

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What study shows authoritarian personality effects obedience?

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Milgram and Elms(1966): Compared F scale scores for 20 obedient ppts and 20 defiant ppts. Finding obedient ppts had a higher F score.

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What is an F score?

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A way to measure authoritarian personality.

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What study proves internal and external locus effects obedience?

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Milgram: From Milgram’s variations 1 to 4, 118 ppts were asked to judge their responsibility for giving shocks.
-Those who disobeyed put more blame on themselves- 48% (internal)
-39% of people blamed the experimenter.
-12% blamed the learner.

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What Milgram Variation proves gender stereotypes does not effect obedience?

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variation 8.

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What study did Kilham and Mann(1974) conduct to prove gender effects obedience?

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-Found females to be less obedient (16% vs 40%)
-However there was a male experimenter which could have effected obedience levels.

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What study did Bambrun and Vatine conduct (2010) to prove authoritarian personality effects obedience?

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  • Conducted a simulation of Milgram.
    -Those who had a higher level of authoritarian personality were less likely to withdraw from the study.