obidience

Question 1

obedience

Answer 1

individual carries out a behaviour due to orders/demands from an authority figure

Question 2

milligram’s agency theory?

Answer 2

all people are likely to obey authority figures - 100 percent of participants acting as a teacher (authority) would give painful shots - up to 300v to victim (confederate) - thought it was a participant - orders of scientist acting as authority figure - 65 percent gave lethal voltage - stopped shouting - which could mean they were dead

Question 3

social factors affecting obedience?

Answer 3

agency - make descions - most of the time in an autonomous state - feel in charge - giving up agencey - agentic shift, agentic state - let someone make our decisions - follow instructions - responsible - feel that we don’t get consequences

Question 4

authority?

Answer 4

learn who is and isn’t a legitimate authority figure - socialisation - police and scientists are higher on the social hierarchy - people who are not (cleaners) make judgement via uniform

Question 5

culture?

Answer 5

children learn social hierarchy in there culture - learn through socialisation - to respect same type of people as our parents and peers - e.g: some countries place older people higher on the social hierarchy

Question 6

proximity

Answer 6

sense of responsibility for actions closer you are to the person you are hurting - victim and teacher were in same room participants obedience to scientist dropped from 60 percent to 40 percent

Question 7

evaluation?

Answer 7

milgrams study supported theory - 65 percent of participants obeyed an authority figures order to give them a lethal shock

35 percent resisted authority figure - some people have personalities that allows them to resist social pressure - people who resisted power had a high internal locus of control