Obedience

Question 1

Foot in the door technique

Answer 1

Accepting bigger things more easily if you’ve already accepted a smaller thing.

Question 2

Low ball technique

Answer 2

Getting to agree to something small, which suddenly grows bigger (due to eg miscalculation). Causing to accept the bigger since you already made the step to accept.

Question 3

Norm of obedience to legitimate authorities

Answer 3

Subject respects the authority but doesn’t fully understand. If it would’ve been an office instead of Yale; less obedient

Question 4

Proximity of experimenter/learner

Answer 4

The further the experimenter the lower the obedience, the closer the learner the lower the obedience

Question 5

Absence of alternative model

Answer 5

No one to show you the way, if someone before rejected, less obedience, if someone before obedient, way higher

Question 6

Incremental nature of request

Answer 6

Not one big jump but small steps

Question 7

Self assurance and responsibility

Answer 7

Reassuring by asking who’s responsible. If they were seen as responsible obedience dropt.

Question 8

Generalizability critique

Answer 8

Must know somewhere that the experimenter wouldn’t actually let them get hurt
No chance to reflect on what were doing unlike the Nazi’s.