social-psychological factors Flashcards

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What is agentic state?

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a mental state were a person feels no responsibility for their actions and is instead a agent

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What is the autonomous state?

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a mental state were a person feels they are acting of their own free will and are responsible for their action

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What s the agentic shift?

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a change from agentic to autonomous state

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what are binding factors?

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aspects of a situation that allow a person the ignore the damaging effect of their behavior and reduce their moral strain

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how did Blass and Scott identify agentic state?

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they had students watch Milgram’s experiment and identify who was to blame, student put blame on the experimenter

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What does agentic state not explain?

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it dose not explain why some participants did not obey as if we followed the hierarchy the would have all obeyed

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what are the real-life applications?

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it helps us explain how obedience can lead to war crimes

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What results did Mandel find when replication Milgram’s experiment in Germany?

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85% went to maximum voltage

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What results did Rilham and Mann find when replicating Milgram’s experiment is Australia?

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only 16% went up to full voltage

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What did the cross-cultural replications support?

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the idea that in different countries the legitimacy of authority is accepted to different degrees causing different levels of obedience

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What is the obedience alibi and how does it relate to agentic state?

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the obedience alibi is giving evil acts the alibi of only following orders as they are agents of a legitimate authority

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