obedience: dispositional explaination Flashcards

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Explain where Adorno thought our personality came from

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He suggested that the
parents were cold and controlling and that the child growing
up could not express themselves to the parent so ‘bottled up’
the hostility they felt for them and displaced this on people
who as adults they saw as inferior to them.

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define dispositional factor

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personality

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why did Adorno do his research

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he wanted to understand the anti Semitism of the holocaust

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what are the characteristics of the authoritarian personality

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traditional values
view society as weaker than it once was
need strong authority figures
fixed stereotypes
see the world in black and white
show extreme respect for and submissiveness to authority

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what was the procedure of adorno’s study

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studied more than 2000 middle-class white American men and their unconscious attitudes towards other racial groups by using the F scale

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what was the F scale

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potential for fascism scale

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define fascism

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way of organizing society in which a government ruled by a dictator controls the lives of people and they aren’t allowed to disagree with the government

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what were the findings of Adorno’s study

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  1. people higher on the F scale identified with a strong contemptuous (dislike) of the weak

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strong positive correlation between authoritarianism and prejudice

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what is the research that provides research support for the dispositional explaination

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Milgram and Alan Elms (1963) found a correlation between obedience and authoritarian personality.

20 obedient participants scored higher on the F scale than the 20 disobedient participants

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