Unit 1: Obedience

Question 0

Core theory

Answer 0

Situational factors:
Setting
Culture
Consensus

Question 1

Key concepts

Answer 1

Obedience
Authority
Defiance
Denial of responsibility

Question 2

Core theory criticisms

Answer 2

Ecological validity
Ethics
Personality

Question 3

Alternative

Answer 3

Dispositional factors

Authorititian personality

Question 4

Core study

Answer 4

Bickman:
Field experiment done in New York
Used a civilian, milkman, guard
Litter, coin for parking, buss stop

C= 57%
G=89%
M= 33%

Question 5

Core study criticisms

Answer 5

Extraneous variables ,field
Opportunity sampling
Unethical
Gender 
One country on city

Question 7

Applications

Answer 7

Prison
Armed forces
Schools

Question 8

define obedience

Answer 8

following orders or commands from people in authority

Question 9

define authority

Answer 9

a level of status or power

Question 10

define defiance

Answer 10

resisting orders or commands form people in authority

the opposite of obediece

Question 11

define denial of responsibility

Answer 11

blaming actions on a higher authourity that yourlsef rather than accecpting the blame yourself.
eg. i was only doing as i was told.

Question 12

what happened in Holfing et al study in to social influence.

Answer 12

a fake doctor told 22 nurses in usa to give 20 miligrams of astofen (daily doasge 10 milligrams) 21 out of the nurses follwed the rders even though it was against the rules and protocol. the drug was only sugar

Question 13

what was the procedure of milgrams experient into social influence on obedience

Answer 13

volunteer experiment. cont page 51 text book