the authoritarian personality

Question 1

what’s the authoritarian personality

Answer 1

identified by adorno.
a distinct personality pattern characterised by strict adherence, they believe in following social roles more likely to be obedient,
all authoritarian figures should be obeyed at all time, people with authoritarian personality more likely to obey

Question 2

what’s F scale

Answer 2

“rules are there for people to follow not change”
f scale used by adorno, if you agreed with this you had authoritarian personality, they were RIGID thinkers who OBEYED authority, saw world as blavk and white.
people who scored high in f scale, tended to be raised by parents who used authoritarian style parenting(physical punishment)

Question 3

adornos study a03

Answer 3

ELMS AND MILGRAMS supports authoritarian, they had people who took part in milgrams atidy, compared people who was obedient who went to full 450v and people who refused to continue, more obedient scored higher on authoritarian personality on f scale, negative relationships with father

Question 4

right wing authoritarianism

Answer 4

ALTEMEYER said high right wing authoritarianism people possess 3 important personality characteristics that move them to obedience:
-conventionalism- adherence to conventional norms and values (very traditional, not going out of box, do it even if you didn’t want too becaude it’s CONVENTIONAL) eg maybe being gay but being straught is conventional so they act straight.
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authoritarian aggression- aggressive feelinsg towards people who violate norms (discriminating, racism)
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Authoritarian submission - uncritical submission to legitimate authorities
(if legitimate authority tells them to do something, they obey).

Question 5

continue a01

Answer 5

altermyer tested relationship between RWA and obedience, to give themselves an electric shock every time they got the answer wrong, people listened as they were higher authority figure, the higher the authoritarian score, the higher the level of shock they’ll give themselves

Question 6

key study elms and milgram 1966 a01

Answer 6

participants who took part in previous milgram shock experiment, they selected 20 obedient participants(who continued to 450) and 20 defiant(who refused).

each participant completed MMPI Scale and california F SCALE. and asked seruous of open ended questions, about relationship with parents during childhood. and about the experimenter and their attitude towards them

Question 7

findings

Answer 7

little difference,, higher levels of authoritarianism amoung participants classified as obedient.
obedient particpant reprinted being less close to fathers during childhood and describe them negatively.

Question 8

the cultural revolution

Answer 8

leader MAO ij china.
interviews with refugees of revolution showed highly authoritarian nature

Question 9

strength

Answer 9

research evidence for authoritarian personality using virtual reality. milgrams stidy they just have shocks becaude of demand characteristics knew it wasn’t real.
VATINE 2010 they used head sets to recreate milgrams atudy and were told shocks weren’t real, despite this they responded like the situation was real

Question 10

limitation

Answer 10

social context more important
milgram shoe d variations of social context in study (location proximity etc) replying on explanation, lACKS FLEXIBILITY