Obedience Flashcards
Obedience
Form of compliance- occurs when people follow direct commands, typically from an authoritative figure. Private opinions not necessarily changed.
Give 3 situational factors which can affect obedience
- Proximity of victim
- Proximity of authority
- Presence of allies
Give 2 individual factors which can affect obedience
- Experience
- Gender
Give 4 psychological factors which can affect obedience
- Socialisation
- Gradual commitment
- Agentic/autonomous behaviour
- Role of buffers
Agentic behaviour
An individual feels responsible to obey other’s commands
Autonomous behaviour
An individual independently acts upon entering an authority system.
Buffer
Protects someone form seeing their ‘victim’ and the consequences their actions have on them.
Socialisation
People are taught from an early age that they should obey people with a legit authority e.g. police, they are given social roles which are invested by authority by society, this gives authority figures the right to exert control over the behaviour of others
Gradual commitment
Harder to change mind once commited to a course of action
Agentic/autonomous behaivour
Milgram-
- Agentic= person feels responsible for obeying commands of others
- Autonomous= person independantly acting upon entering an authority system
Role of buffers
Buffer- when someone is protected from seeing their ‘victim’ and the consequences their actions have on them
Experience
Past experiences + a sense of expertise influences the degree to which an individual is willing to obey
Gender
Women are generally more empathetic than men, so will be less willing to obey an inhumane command
Give 5 strategies for resisting social pressure
- Feeling of responsibility
- Disobedient role models
- Questioning motives
- Moral reasoning and awareness of own values
- Rebellion in group
Feeling of responsibility
- Led by 2 main emotions- empathy + guilt
- People with moral control empathise with others + feel guilty if dont help
- Milgram- ppl- agentic state if dont see themselves as fully responsible for the welfare of others
- Ppl recieving commands- responsible for any harm produced
- Less tendancy to obey
