Social Psychological Factors on obedience

Question 1

What does it mean to be in an agentic state

Answer 1

Mental state where we feel no personal responsibility for our behaviour because we believe to be acting for an authority figure
Frees us from the Demands of our unconcious

Question 2

What is the autonomous state

Answer 2

Being free to behave according to their own principles and feels a sense of responsibility for their own actions

Question 3

What is the agentic shift

Answer 3

Shift from autonomy to agency

It occurs when a person perceive someone else as a authoritive figure

Question 4

What causes people to stay in the agentic state

Answer 4

Binding factors
Aspects of the situation that allow the person to ignore or minimise the damaging effects of their behaviour and reuse the moral strain

Question 5

What is legitimacy of authority

Answer 5

Explanation for obedience which suggests that we are likely to obey people who we perceive to have authority over us
Authority is justified by the persons position within the social hierarchy

Question 6

What type of authority is shown when milgrams made the experimenters use prods in the study

Answer 6

Destructive authority

Question 7

What research supports legitimate authority causing obedience authority i

Answer 7

Bless and Schmitt
Showed milgrams study to students and made them identify who they felt was responsible for the harm to the learner
Students blamed the experimenter and said it was due to legitimate authority and expert authority

Question 8

Why is the agentic shift a limited explanation

Answer 8

Doesn’t explain why participants didn’t obey

Question 9

Why is legitimacy of authority a useful account of cultural difference in obedience

Answer 9

Many studies show that counties differ in the degree to which people are traditionally obedient to authority
It reflects the way that different societies are structured and how chikdren are raised
This increases the validity of the study