Obedince: Dispositional Explinations

Question 1

Who did Adorno et al. (1975) study?

Answer 1

Obedient personality’s in 2000- middle class, white Americans and their unconscious attitudes toward racial groups

Question 2

What was used to investigate people

Answer 2

Potential fascism scale (F-scale)

Question 3

What was the correlation found with the F-scale

Answer 3

Those who scored highly on F-scale identified with strong people and were contentious of weaker people

Question 4

What cognitive findings were there

Answer 4

Authoritarian people had clear cut ideals between categories of people, with fixed stereotypes

Question 5

Name 4 authoritarian characteristics

Answer 5

1. Extreme respect/ submission for authority
2. Contempt for those perceived as inferior
3. Highly conventional attitudes
4. Inflexible on their outlook

Question 6

What psychodynamic explanation did Adorno propose as to origin

Answer 6

Fear displaced on to weak

Question 7

Research support

Answer 7

Just a correlation
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Might be due to lower levels of education

Question 8

Limited explanation

Answer 8

1. All Germans were racist
2. Not all authoritarian
3. Explained by social identity

Question 9

Political bias

Answer 9

1. F scale measures tendency towards extreme right wing ideology
2. However leftism also demands control and obedience
3. Does not measure across spectrum