Obedience: dispositional explanation

Question 1

What is dispositional explanation?

Answer 1

any explanation of behaviour that highlights the importance of the individuals personality, i.e. the disposition

Question 2

Relevance of dispositional explanation in milligrams research

Answer 2

Like Milgrim Theodore Adorno wanted to understand the anti Semitism of the Holocaust.
Every search led them to draw very different conclusions from milligrams, He believed that a high level of obedience is basically a psychological disorder i.e. pathological he believed that the causes of such disorder line in the personality of the individual, rather than the situation, i.e. it’s a dispositional explanation 

Question 3

Explain an authoritarian personality

Answer 3

A type of personality that Adorno argued, was especially susceptible to obeying people in authority. Such individuals are also thought to be submissive to those of her status and dismissive of inferiors.

Question 4

What is adornos research?

Answer 4

I don’t know study more than 200 middle-class, white Americans and their unconscious attitudes towards other ethnic groups. The researchers developed several measurement scales, including the potential for fascism scale (f-scale). The scale is still used to measure of authoritarian personalities 

Question 5

Findings of adornos research

Answer 5

People with authoritarian learnings i.e. those who scored high on the scale and other measures identified with strong people who are generally contemptuous of the week. They were very conscious of their status, both their own and others, and showed extreme respect to those of higher status.