Obedience (social- psychological factors)

Question 1

Define the Agentic state

Answer 1

• a mental state where we feel no personal responsibility for our behaviour cause we believe ourself to be acting for an authority figure

Question 2

Define/outline an autonomous state

Answer 2

• when a person is free to behave according to their own principles and therefore feels a sense of responsibility for their actions

Question 3

What is the agentic shift

Answer 3

• when theres a shift from autonomy to agency

- occurs when a person percieves someone else as a figure of authority

Question 4

Define or outline the term binding factors

Answer 4

• when aspects of the situation allows an individual to ignore or reduce the damage they may have caused, reducing ‘moral strain’

Question 5

Define legitimacy of authority

Answer 5

• when we are more likely to obey ppl who we percieve to have more authority than us

Question 6

what are one of the consequences of this legitimacy of authority

Answer 6

• we are willing to give up some of our independence and to hand it over to those we think can handle the authority appropriately
• we learn acceptance of legitimate authority from childhood

Question 7

Outline what is meant by the term destructive authority

Answer 7

• leaders can use their authority for destructive purposes

Question 8

Give a strength of this explanation

Answer 8

• RESEARCH SUPPORT
• blass and Schmitt showed a film of Milgrams study to students and asked them who they felt was responsible for the harm of MR WALLICEHJBFKHBV
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• the students blamed the experimenter

Question 9

What is a strength of the legitimacy of authority

Answer 9

• cultural differences

- it is a useful account of cultural differences in obedience