Knowledge quiz week 5

Question 1

How would the social pysychological theory explain the high levels of anxiety participants showed in Milgram’s experiment?

Answer 1

Moral strain

Question 2

Give an example in history that shows how social pysychological factors lead to high levels of obedience?

Answer 2

The Holocaust when Hitler was instructing people to kill Jews.

Question 3

Milgram argued people could be in two states when it comes to personal responsibility. Name these two states.

Answer 3

Autonomous and agentic

Question 4

Give an example of a binding factor that might have been seen in Milgram’s experiment.

Answer 4

Gradual comittment

Question 5

How does Blass and Schmitt’s study support social pysychological variables of obedience?

Answer 5

It showed agency theory as people believed that the experimenters were responsible for harm when shown Milgram’s experiment.

Question 6

Which explanation of obedience tells us why a student would obey the headmaster in the playground but not a sixth former?

Answer 6

Legitimacy of authority