social psychological factos

Question 1

What is an agentic state

Answer 1

The mental state where we feel no personal responsibility for our behaviour, because we believe ourselves to be acting for someone else ( authority figure)

Question 2

what is an autonomous state

Answer 2

we are independent and have free will over our actions

Question 3

What is legitimacy of authority

Answer 3

An explanation for obedience that suggests we armoire likely to obey people who we believe to have authority over us,

Question 4

What is the authoritarian personality

Answer 4

A personality type that is more likely to obey people in authority, usually submissive to those of a higher status and dismissive to inferiors

Question 5

What can the authortian personality be measured using

Answer 5

F scale,
Adorno said if u score high, u have that personality

Question 6

Adorno’s aim

Answer 6

To find support for the dispositional explanation of obedience

Question 7

Adornos procedure

Answer 7

-2000 middle class white Americans to complete a range of scales to measure their unconscious attitudes towards other racial groups
- one used was the F scale

Question 8

Disadvantage of ap

Answer 8

P- methodological problems using self report data

E - uses f scale, may lack validity due to social desirability bias , pps may give answers they dont agree with in order to appear a certain type of way to the researcher

L- therefore limits internal validity of the research and therefore this explanation of obedience

Question 9

Adornos findings

Answer 9

People with authoritarian leanings, identified with strong people and were generally disapproving of the weak, shows high levels of respect for those with a higher status

Question 10

Disadvtange of ap

Answer 10

biased sample - only used white middle class Americans, meaning results aren’t generalisable as there’s issues with culture and gender bias