OBEDIENCE Flashcards
What is authority?
When a person has right or power to give orders.
What is obidience?
Obidience is when a person follows direct orders from a person who they feel has authority over them.
describe how proximity of authority figure, affects obidience.
Proximity is a fancy word for closeness.
When the figure of authority is closer, its harder to disobey. Therefore the closer the authority figure is to us, the more likely we are to obey. And Vice-versa.
Describe how proximity of victim affects obidience.
This simply means how close you are to the victim , and wether you see the onsequences of your actions through you own eyes. Seeing the consequences before you eyes, will decrease the liekhood of bidience.
How does location affect obidience?
There are some locations where we are more likely to obey.
How does uniform affect obidince?
People are more likely to obey aothoritative figures, wgen the authortive figures, wear a uniform, to indicate his level of authority.
What is a person when he has ‘social hierarchy’?
When a person has more authprity over someone else in a social group, we say they have social hierarchy.
Whta is legitimacy of authority?
We spend our whole life is social hierarchies. As a result, we group up with the idea that we have to respect and obey those with authority. We are also told not to question their authority. Inconclusion, we obey people that have authority over us, because we seee their authority as legitimate.
What is the agency theory?
People can be given destructive orders by authoritive figures. They feel the need to obey the authority figure, but they also dont want to be responsible for horrible consequences. This is known as** moral strain.**
People will obey a fogure of authority, if they they thunk the authority figure will take responsability for the consequences.
We say the people have become Agents.This reduces moral strain, and makes us feel better.
describe all the changes in processes in the agency theory.
When a person shifts responsability, and sees themselfes as and agent, we call this the agentic state.
When a person acts with their own free will, and takes responsability for their actions, we call this the autonomous state.
When a person moves from the autonomous state, to the agentic state, we call this the agentic shift.
What is the authoritarian personality?
Firstly, it involves individual variables.
A person who trully believes in the social hierarchy. Obeys people which have higher power than them, and look down on people with less power. This is known as the authoritarian personality.
These people tend to be agressive, rigid and strict in their personality.
How does having strict parents, lead to an authoritarian personality?
- Makes children ask less questions.
- Leaves children ti be frustrated and angry, because they have no freedom, they are too scared to express their anger to parents, because they will be punished, so instead, they take it out on people who cant punish them, (people which are lower in the social hierarchy, people which have LESS power than them).
What is the F-scale?
It is a questionaire to see if someone has an authoritarian personality.
What was the aim of Millgrams experiment?
To test if any individual could be made to go against their moral code, in order to obey.
Describe Millgrams experiment.
- Millgram recruited male participants, and he told them that he was conducting an experiment about learning and memory.So he was deceiving his participants.
- Tge participants were met by an experimenter, wearing aw hite lab coat
- each participant was introduced to a confederate.
- The confederate would play the role of a learner, and the participants would play the role of a teacher.
- the participants were told to administer an ekctric shock to everytime the learner gave the wrong answer ( They wre ein different rooms).
- The electroahocks would range from 350V to 450V, and it was made ckear to them that 450 V could cause serious injury to another human being.
- In reality, the learner (confederate), was not being shocked, and his answers were pre-recorded.
- everytime a person would administer an electricschock, teh pre-recording would play, and it would sound as if the learner was in serious pain.
- As the voltage increased, the pre-recording cries would get even worse.
- At 330 volts, the learner would stop making any noises at all
- Meanwhile, the experimenter kept on inistsing, and tell the participants to continue administering the elctric shocks, despite hearing that man horrible cries (prerecorded).