SI - adorno

Question 1

ADORNOS AIM

Answer 1

• interested in peoples obedience during the holocaust
• argued high obedience could be classified as a psychological disorder
• wanted to pin down the personality that is obedient and condluded it is the authoritarian personality

Question 2

what was adornos sample?

Answer 2

2000 white middle class males

Question 3

procedure

Answer 3

asked the males to complete various questions that aimed to delve into their unconscious beliefs about race and gender

the central questionnaire was the F scale / fascist scale

Question 4

example question from fascist scale

Answer 4

’ obedience and respect for authority are important values that children must learn’ how far do you agree

Question 5

findings

Answer 5

people who valued authority identified strong people and looked down on those they deemed as weaker than them

they were very aware of their statues and other people

having fixed, distincitive views on gender and race

Question 6

for the authoritatiarn personality what is there a strong correlation betwene

Answer 6

authoritarian p and prejudice

Question 7

what are the authoritarian characteristics

Answer 7

• especially obedient
• respect for authority and submissive to it
• highly controversial attitudes towards sex and race and gender
• believe we need strong and powerful leaders
• inflexible outlook - black and white cognitive thinking

Question 8

what is the origin of the authoritarian personality?

Answer 8

• ## childhood because of harsh parenting

Question 9

the parenting style of someone who develops AP

Answer 9

• STRICT DISCIPLINED
• high stndards
• loyalty
• conditional love that depends on how the child behaves

Question 10

what is the psychodynamic aspect of adorno

Answer 10

• the parenting style creates resentment in the child
• but they cannot take this out on parents as they fear them
• so they displace their frustration on people they see as weaker
• this explains the maltreatment to people they see as weaker or inferior

Question 11

what type of explanation is adornos?

Answer 11

dispositional

Question 12

what attitudes was adorno researchiing

Answer 12

unconsious

Question 13

evaluate authoritarian p

Answer 13

+ theory is based on a large sample
- sample bias
- milgram and elms
- only a correlation
- alternative exaplantion

Question 14

what did milgram and elms find?

Answer 14

did interviews on people who were obedient and scored highly on the F scale to find that there was a correlation

Question 15

adorno conlusions

Answer 15

people with the authroirtarian personality are more obedient