Obedience Flashcards
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obedience
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our willingness to follow the orders of someone in a position of authority over us
2
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factors affecting obedience (5)
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- perceived legitimate authority
- socialisation
- parenting
- autonomous/agentic behaviour
- situational factors
3
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Perceived legitimate authority
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when we think someone has the authority to tell us what to do, generally, we will obey.
4
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socialisation
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- the effect of childhood experiences on making us behave according to social norms
- result of social pressures from family, teachers and peers
5
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parenting
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- democratic: children are encouraged to think for themselves and negotiate boundaries
- authoritarian: obedience to parents and authority, rules should be obeyed not questioned
6
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autonomous/agentic behaviour
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- autonomous: seeing yourself as in charge and following your own wishes
- agentic: seeing another person as in power and acting on behalf of them
7
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Situational factors
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- proximity
- location
- uniform
8
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situational factor: proximity
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- in a variation of Milgram’s experiment, the experimenter left the room and gave all instructions over the phone
- this reduced obedience, making participants more likely to defy the experimenter
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situational factor: location
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- a variation of Milgram’s experiment was carried out in a run down office rather than Yale
- obedience rated dropped
- less prestigious locations reduce obedience
10
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situational factor: uniform
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- Bickman’s experiment used 3 actors dressed as a security guard, a milkman and a normal person
- actors asked members of the public to follow random instructions
- people more likely to follow the instructions of the security guard
