Social factors

Question 1

What is legitimate authority

Answer 1

More likely to obey to perceived higher authority as an explanation for obedience.

Question 2

What is autonomous

Answer 2

Independence

Question 3

What is Agentic State

Answer 3

Mental state where theirs no personal responsibility for personal behaviour due to acting from authority figures orders..

Question 4

what is agentic shift

Answer 4

Shift from autonomy to agentic state.

Question 5

What are binding factors

Answer 5

Situational aspects that allows minimisation or ignorance to affects of behaviour.

Question 6

What is social-phsycology

Answer 6

Influences of others individual behaviour rather than external factors to the situation.

Question 7

Describe the agentic state resurch

Answer 7

Milgram proposed the concept of agentic shift to explain the behaviour that goes against conscious.
Suggested people move from autonomous to agentic when confronted with perceived authority.
Believed we would experience binding factors which result when we go against morals. Unable to stop due to social pressure.

Question 8

A03 of agentic state

Answer 8

Milgram’s study shows how normal people follow instructions even when going against conscious.
Blass followed up asking people who saw mailgrams study who they blamed, they blamed experimenter showing they believed the participants where subjected to authority.
Shown in real world where moral strain from actions occur.

Could be due to personality and cannot explain disobedience.

Against;

• limited application
• doesn’t explain disobedience
• not generalizable
• limited situations
• 101 polish where killed by Nazis due to own choice so suggest personality is a factor.

for;
Supportive research
scientific