Social Influences-explanation Of Obedience LOA

Question 1

Outline LoA

Answer 1

Obey people who perceived as having authority over
Justified,legitimate by individs power in social hierarchy

Respect credentials,qualified experience
Milgram person in Casulal public clothes =20% obedient
65%with lab coat.
Yale uni prestige

Question 2

Supported by milgram

Answer 2

65%450=lab coat.
20%obey with public uni

Question 3

Obedience in the cockpit

Answer 3

Tarnow studied review of all serious aircraft incidents
Where flight recorder was available
(The black box)
Where flight crew contributed to crash
Cus too obedient n didn’t speak up respected credentials

Question 4

Cultural differences

Answer 4

Kilham and Mann
16% of female Australian all the way up to 450 volts
Mantels found diff fig for German participants 85%

Question 5

Can’t explain all obedience

Answer 5

Rank et al
16 /18hospital nurses disobeyed orders of doc to administer exces drug dose
Found opposite of hofling
Ignored legitimacy of authority.