SI - SITUATIONAL EXPLANATIONS FOR OBEDIENCE

Question 1

what are the situational explanations for obedience?

Answer 1

• agentic state
• legitamacy of authority

Question 2

what is meant by agentic state?

Answer 2

• social psychological explanation
• psychological state
• feel no responsibility for obeying
• believe you’re acting for another person, you are not the agent of your choices
• you feel guilt but not responsibility

Question 3

do you feel guilt in agentic state?

Answer 3

you do feel guilt but you do not feel responsible for this guilt because you are acting for this other person

Question 4

what is the autonomous state?

Answer 4

free and independent

Question 4

what is the autonomous state?

Answer 4

feeling free and independent
mostly you feel responsible for your actions

Question 5

what causes the agentic shift

Answer 5

the prescence of an authority figure

Question 6

what is the agentic shift

Answer 6

changing from autonomous states to agentic

Question 7

what figure sets off the agentic shift

Answer 7

the authority figure
- they have a greater place in the social hierarchy
- when we join a social group we look at who to obey in that situation

Question 8

evaluate agentic state

Answer 8

• milgrams variations
• however only males
• more research from shmitt
• cant explain idividual differences
• alternative explanations - dispositional - adorno

Question 9

what was shmitts research?

Answer 9

asked students who was in the wrong in milgrams study and they said the researcher

Question 10

which of milgrams variations support agentic state

Answer 10

when research was not present obedience decrease this is because they do not have an authroity figure to act through and feel responsible for their actions

Question 11

who has authroity over us

Answer 11

teachers, police and the government

Question 12

what factors make a person a legit authroty figure

Answer 12

• THEY ARE ACCEPTED IN SOCIETY AS HAVING A HIGH SOCIAL STANDING
• WE TRUST THEM WITH POWER
• WE BELIEVE THEY CAN HELP SOCIETY TO FUNCTION WITH ORDER

Question 13

a01 for authroity figure

Answer 13

• most societies have a hierarchy
• this tells us who has authority over us
• A.F have social power
• which means they have the power to punish
• we accept their power and obey them
• trusting them to exerszie their power correctly
• we learn this from a young age

Question 14

what is the concequence of social hierarchy in society?

Answer 14

we formulate a power system
those higher up have social power and then power to punish those below them

Question 15

when do we learn social hierarchy?

Answer 15

from a young age

Question 16

evaluate legitamacy of authroity

Answer 16

• bickman
• only males
• MILGRAMS UNIFORM VARAIABLE
• practical applications - order in society and prisons
• cant explain individual differences
• alternative exp

Question 17

what are binding factors

Answer 17

binding factors - these are aspects of the situation that allows a person to ignore or minimise the damage of their behaviour this could be shifting responsibility or denial