Situation Explanations AO1

Question 1

What is the agentic state?

Answer 1

when a person sees themself as an agent for carrying out another person’s wishes so they don’t have to take repsonsibility for their own actions

Question 2

Desribe the agentic shift?

Answer 2

• the action of shifting the responsibility of your action onto someone else
• autonomous state and agentic state
• milgram suggests this occurs when someone persieves someone else as an authority figure

Question 3

What is the autonomour state?

Answer 3

when a person behaves according to their own principles and takes responsibilty for their own actions

Question 4

What is binding factors?

Answer 4

• what milgram describes as aspects of a situation that allows a person to reduce the moral strain of their actions
• it causes people to remain in the agentic state

Question 5

Describe legitimacy of authority?

Answer 5

• it refers to a person who is percieved to be in a position of social control within a situation
• for an authority to be viewed a legitimate the situation must occur in an institutional structure