Obedience Flashcards
What is the difference between conformity and obedience?
Obedience has an authority figure, conformity is amongst peers
What is an example of resistance to obedience?
Battalion 101; 500 Nazis told to exterminate a town of jews in poland but they could step out if they wanted to - 12 men stepped out
What is the main study for obedience?
Milgram 1963
What are the factors affecting obedience?
Proximity, setting, uniform
What is a situational variable?
A feature of someone’s immediate environment that may affect someone’s behaviour
What are the two explanations for obedience?
Agentic state
Legitimacy of authority
What is a destructive authority?
Someone who abuses their power
What is an example of the two explanations for obedience?
Eichmann, facilitated 110,000 Jews being transported into death camps, fled to Argentina after escaping US custody but was caught and hanged
What study proves that Agentic state might not always be the reason for cruelty?
Haney et al found that sadistic guards carried out their own evil acts, without being told to do so in SPE
What study proves that the rapid switch between being autonomous and the agentic state is impossible?
Lifton found that Nazi doctors over time became more used to killing patients, it wasn’t instant
What study shows that legitimacy of authority isn’t challenged in high pressure situations?
Tarnow found that during plane crashes the co-pilot knew the pilot was making a mistake but didn’t correct them
What is the dispositional explanation for obedience?
Authoritarian personality
Who discovered that Authoritarian personalities were created via parenting style?
Adorno
How are APs measured?
The California F Scale; people with APs see the world in black and white and always follow the rules
Who tested obedient and deviant people from Milgram’s experiment against the California F Scale?
Elms and Milgram found that obedient people scored higher on the California F Scale
