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Obedience: Dispositional Explanations Flashcards

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What is a dispositional explanation?

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Explanation of behaviour highlights the importance of the individual’s personality

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Who investigated into why Nazi soldiers were so willing to persecute and kill members of minority groups, such as Jews during WW II; could it be blamed on a personality trait?

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Adorno

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When did Adorno investigate into this?

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1950

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What did Adorno claim?

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Particular personality type is more likely to obey an authority

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What did Adorno et al. (1950) investigated in to?

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The causes of an obedient personality in a study of more than 2000 middle-class, white Americans and their unconscious attitudes towards other racial groups.

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What did Adorno et al. (1950) develop?

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  • F scale

- F=Fascist

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What did the F-Scale test?

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The relationship between a person’s personality type and prejudiced beliefs

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What was Adorno et al (1950) procedure?

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Define authoritarian personality:

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A type of personality which was susceptible to obeying people in authority

  • Submissive to those with high authority
  • Dismissive of inferiors
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What was Adorno et al (1950) findings?

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-Those who scored higher were identified as ‘strong’
-higher score has particular cognitive style
+No grey areas between catergories
+Fixed and distinctive stereotypes
+Strong positive correlation between authoritarianism and prejudice

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Characteristics of an authoritarian personality:

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  • Rigid beliefs = very traditional/dislike of change
  • Hostility of other groups = Dominating and bullying manner
  • Intolerant of ambiguity = Cannot tolerate behaviour which is wrong
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Origin of the Authoritarian personality:

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  • Harsh and punitive upbringing/ little love
  • Fear of parents = excessive respect to authority figures
  • Hatred of parents = gate and anger displaced on to others
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What is the origin of the Authoritarian personality base on?

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Psychodynamic approach

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What did Milgram and Elms (1966) find?

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Original participants who exceed to 450v showed higher on tests of authoritarianism and lower on social responsibility

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Disadvantage of Milgram and Elms (1966):

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-Only correlation

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Why is the authoritarian personality explanation limited?

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As during the WWII May Germans behaved the same but had very different personalities so not all could have had the authoritarian personality

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What is an alternative explanation to the authoritarian personality explanation?

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Social identity theory

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Who proposed that the F-scale is politically bias?

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Christie and Jahoda (1954)

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Is the F-scale politically free or biased?

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Biased

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Why is the F-scale biased according to Christie and Jahoda (1954)?

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F-scale tends to measure the tendency towards extreme right-wing ideology

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Why is Adorno’s theory not a comprehensive dispositional theory?

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Doesn’t explain left wing authoritariansim

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Who suggested that the F-scale has a flawed methodology?

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Greenstein (1969)

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What did Greenstein (1969) criticise?

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  • The scale was all in the same order meaning possible social desirability bias
  • Researcher knew the score of participants before interviewing (Reseach bias can occur)
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What does the flaw in methodology mean for all the results collected by Adorno?

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That they are meaningless and lacks serious validity

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What the results collected by Adorno cause and effects or a correlation?

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Correlation

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What is the problem with results which are a correlation?

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No matter how strong they neither be a cause and effect established form it

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What could Adorno not claim due to results being a correlation?

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That harsh parenting causes development of authoritarian personality

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