Obedience

Question 1

What does it mean to obey?

Answer 1

To comply with a direct request. Usually from an authority member.

Question 2

Milgram’s experiment

Answer 2

• 40 males responded to an advert and was paid $4.50
• Yale university
• greeted by researcher with a lab coat
• fixed draw so participant was always teacher and confederate was learner
• teacher had to give increasingly strong ( going up 15V each time) electric shock every time the learner got the question wrong.
• experimenter gave prompts to teacher to encourage them to carry on
• all participants went to 300 volts and 65% went to the max of 450 volts labelled XXX
• the volts were fake but the participants were unaware of that

Question 3

What’s agentic state?

Answer 3

• explanation of why people obey
• individuals see themselves as an agent for carrying out others wishes. They dont take blame as they say they were doing what they were told

Question 4

What’s legitimacy of authority?

Answer 4

• explanation for obedience

- the degree to which individuals are seen having power over others. For example the piolet has power over the do piolet

Question 5

What’s authoritarian authority?

Answer 5

• explanation for obedience
• a person who holds rigid beliefs including absolute obedience. They’re submissive to authority and are hostile to minority groups

Question 6

What’s a dispositionall explanation?

Answer 6

Belief that something is caused by internal characteristics of an individual

Question 7

What’s a situational explanation?

Answer 7

Something is caused by external factors in the environment or situation