The authoritarian personality

Question 1

What did the identification of a personality type provide?

Answer 1

The Authoritarian Personality- Provided a possible explanation for why some individuals require very little pressure to obey an order

Question 2

Who used the F-Scale test?

Answer 2

Adorno et al. (1950)

Question 3

What did the F-scale test measure?

Answer 3

Different components that made up the Authoritarian Personality

Question 4

What kind of people where people with the Authoritarian Personality?

Answer 4

Rigid thinkers who obeyed authoirty, saw the world as black and white
Enforced sticking by social rules and hierarchy

Question 5

What did Adorno et al. also find out about people who scored highly on the F-scale test?

Answer 5

They tended to be bought up by strict parents who used an authoritarian parenting style

Question 6

What did growing up in an authoritarian household mean for children?

Answer 6

They assume that this is system is the expected norm

Children acquire these same authoritarian attitudes througha process of learning and imitation

Question 7

What did Robert Altemeyer (1981) refine about the Authoritarian Personality?

Answer 7

He identified a cluster of three of the original personality variables that he referred to as right-wing authoritarianism

Question 8

According to Altemeyer, high-RWA people possess three important personality characteristics that include?

Answer 8

• Conventionalism
• Authoritarian aggression
• Authoritarian submission

Question 9

What is conventionalism?

Answer 9

An adherence to conventional norms and values

Question 10

What is Authoritarian aggression?

Answer 10

Aggressive feelings toward people who violate these norms

Question 11

What is Authoritarian submissions?

Answer 11

Uncritical submission to legitimate authorities

Question 12

How did Altemeyer test the relationship between RWA and obedience?

Answer 12

Were order to give themselves increasing levels of shock when they made mistakes on a learning task

Question 13

Key Study: Elms and Milgram (1966)

What was one of the major debates surrounding Milgram’s study of obedience?

Answer 13

Whether participant’s behaviour emerged only under specific situational conditions or whether it was dispositional

Question 14

Key Study: Elms and Milgram (1966)

Who did Elms and Milgram use as their subjects?

Answer 14

Participants who had previously taken part in one of Milgram’s experiments two months previous

Question 15

Key Study: Elms and Milgram (1966)

What kind of people did Elms and Milgram?

Answer 15

Obedient

Defiant

Question 16

Key Study: Elms and Milgram (1966)

How many of each personality type did they take?

Answer 16

20 obedient

20 defiant

Question 17

Key Study: Elms and Milgram (1966)

What did each participant complete?

Answer 17

The MMPI scale and the California F scale

Question 18

Key Study: Elms and Milgram ( 1966)

What did researchers find?

Answer 18

Little difference between obedient and defiant participants on MMPI variables
But obedient participants had higher levels of authoritarism than participants classified as defiant

Question 19

Key Study: Elms and Milgram (1966)

What did obedient participants say their relationships with their father’s was like?

Answer 19

Less close with their fathers

Spoken negatively about them