individual differances in obediance

Question 1

what are some individual differances that affect obediance

Answer 1

personality and gender

Question 2

what is an individual differance of personality

Answer 2

authoritarian personality

Question 3

what is a supporting evidance for authoritrarian personality

Answer 3

adorno - created a questionaire for pp and based on pp answers created an f scale to measure the levels of obediance of an ibndividual and how intolerant to change they where supporting the idea of an authoritarian personality

Question 4

what ia anouther individual differance

Answer 4

rotter loss of control
-a belife that the outcomes of our actions are depending on what we do or on events outside our personal control.

Question 5

what is locus of control supported by

Answer 5

rotter – propsed a scale to measure a persons locus of control. suggested that behaviour affected by rewards and punishment
with the internal locust of control - where individuals belive they are responsible for their own actions
external locus of control belive their behaviour is beyons their control

Question 6

what ia anouther individual differance

Answer 6

gender- sheriden and king argued women are more obediant than men - replicated milgrams study with a puppy as the victim and found 13 more women obeyed compared to men , showing females are more obedient

Question 7

how could you oppose this idea of gender

Answer 7

in burgers study he found no differance in the no. of male pp who obeyed compared to the number of female pp t/f suggesting no differance in obedience depending on gender

Question 8

what is anouther individual differance

Answer 8

empathy- those with a high level of empathy less likey to harm others when given dustructive obediance tasks

Question 9

how can you critises the idea of empathy as an individual differeance

Answer 9

burger found that although lots of pp socred high in empathy they still obyed destructive obediance orders from a laf