Social influence B.2 Obedience to authority Flashcards
what study must you include for an essay
‘discuss research into obedience’
Milgrim
what were the findings of milgrims study
65% reached 450 volts extreme shock
qualitive data showed signs of ditress
37% didnt obay
what is the supporting study for milgrim
Hofling et al
21/22 nurses obeyed
what were milgrims situational variables and give the results
Proximity–> teacher and learner in same room 65% to 40%
Location—> run down office block 47%
uniform—> lab coat off down to 20%
evaluate milligrams situational variations
Lack of internal validity–> PP’s worked out deception so unknown whether the results are valid
Cross cultural variations–> Miranda found that 90% of spannish students were obedient
what is agentic state
Where someone does an act on behalf of an authority figure so they feel no responsibility
What is legitimacy of authority
an explination for obedience whereby we feel we have to obey someone because they have more authority over us
Define authoritarian personality
An alternative explination to obedience than milgrim proposed where there is a psychological personality influencing obedience
what is used to measure authoritarian personality
Adornos F scale used 2000 mille class white americans to assess their attitudes to different groups
Evaluate the authoritarian personality as an explination for obedience
Milgrim done the F scale with obedient participents and found they scored high but this is only a correlation.
Questionnaire lacks validity as it may be bias
It densest apply to the whole political spectrum. It assumes those who are authoritarian are right wing when in fact those who are left wing also obay political figures.
