social psychological factors

Question 1

autonomous state

Answer 1

when a person is acting independeltky, autonomy means to be independent or free
free to behave according to their own pricniples and therefore feel a sence of responsibility for their own actions

Question 2

agentic state

Answer 2

opposit
occurs when individual carries out the orders of an authority figure and acts as their agent with little perosnal repsonbility and reduced moral strain for their actions

shift from autonomy to agency=agentic shift

Question 3

legitimacy of authority

Answer 3

milgram believd that focusing on procedure and instruction given by the experimenter, made participants recognise the legitmate authority of the researcher

when their was change of uni, obedience dropped much mrore

shows that change when experimeter has less authority

Question 4

strength of social pscyhological factors

Answer 4

rewsearch support for the role f the agentic state in obedience

most of partcipants in milgrasm study resisted getting shocks at some point
often asked questions to experiemnter suchc as who is repsonsile if the learner is harmed
if experimenter, stated they were involved, the partcipants often carried on with no further objections
suggets that once partiicpant percives their no longer responsblie for theis own behaviour, they act more easily as experimenters agent as milgram suggested

Question 5

strength of social psychological factors

Answer 5

research support for legitmacy of authoirty

e.g milgram moved the study to a run down office rather than prestifious yale uni, obedience droppedd to 47.5%
adiditonally, bickman foudn that 92% of pedesrians obeyesd an order to give a stranger money for a parking meter when the person giving the order was dressed as security gurard, compared to only 49% when he was dressed in ordnairy clothing

showing that when the authority figure has greater staus, more legitmate authority, they are more liekly to be obeyed