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Obedience Flashcards

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Obedience

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compliance with an order, request, or law. Or a submission to another’s authority

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Explanations for obedeince

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Legitimacy of authority and agentic state

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Agentic State

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See yourself as agent for carrying out other persons wishes
- feels no personal responsibility for their actions

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Autonomous State

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Behaves according to their principles and feels responsible for their actions

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Agentic Shift

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From an autonomous state to an agentic state when you see someone else as an authority figure who has power due to their position in the social hierarchy

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Binding factors

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aspects of a situation that allow the person to ignore or minimise the damaging effect of their behaviour and reduce the moral strain they feel

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Binding factors in Milgram’s experiment

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when a confederate gives the electric shock

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Agentic State - AO3 Mandel

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Police obeyed order to shoot civilians in small Polish town despite being told they could be assigned to other duties if preffered
- not in agentic state

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Agentic State + AO3 Milgram

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Milgram = ppts with confederate who gives shocks -> 92% obedience

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Legitimacy of authority

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Society is structured as a hierarchy and people have certain positions which hold authority over the rest of us

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How have authorities been made legitimate?

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It is agreed by society. Most accept that authority figures should exercise social power over others to allow society to function smoothly

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Why do we obey authority figures?

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People with legitimate authority have the power to punish others.

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When do we learn to accept authority?

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During childhood; parents, teachers

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Some use legitimate authority for destructive purposes

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Some leaders use legitimate authority destructively, ordering people to behave in cruel and dangerous ways

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Legitimacy of Authority AO3 -

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Imposed etic
- not all cultures have same hierarchical structure

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Legitimacy of Authority + AO3

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Milgram = moved to run down office -> 48% go to 450V so conformity decreased

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Legitimacy of Authority AO3 + Hofling et al

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Nurses telephones and told to give dangerous dose of drug by a doctor (someone of authority to them) - 95% did

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Milgram Sample

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Volunteer of 40 males

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Milgram Method

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  • rigged hat = confederates is learner and ppt as teacher
  • ppts gives a series of word pairs and if confederate gets wrong, ppt gives them an electric shock
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Milgram Shock Levels

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from 15V to 450V and went up in 15V increments

21
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Milgram: what happens at 300V

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Learner falls silent

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How was Milgram’s experiment standardised

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The confederates ‘noises’ as a response to the shocks were prerecorded

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Milgram: How many ppts went to 450V?

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65%

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Milgram: How many ppts stopped at 300V?

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12.5%

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Milgram Conclusion

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Obey acts of evil not due to an evil disposition but a result of situational factors

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Milgram variation: less responsibility

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Another confederate gives shocks
92% go to 450V

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Milgram variation: Ally

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Ally disagrees with experimenter
10% go to 450V

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Milgram variation: Setting

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Less presitigious setting of a run down office block
48% go to 450V

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Milgram Variation: experimenter in everyday clothes

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20% go to 450V

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Milgram Variations: Absent experimenter

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21% go to 450V

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Milgram Variation: Learner in the same room

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40% go to 450V

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Milgram + AO3

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+Hofling et al = nurses phoned and asked to give dangerous does of drug 95% did (- Jacobson = drug was unknown = repeated with valium and 11% did)
+Le Jeu de la Mort = french gameshow replicated non-academic version 80% ppts went to 450v on unconscious man

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Milgram - AO3

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Orner and Holland = ppts acting as knew it it wouldn’t have been allowed as unsafe (- Perry = ppts shown in tapes to doubt if it were real)

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Who came up with the idea of Authoritarian personalities?

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Adorno et al

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What does an authoritarian personality predispose you to?

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Prejudice

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How do you test for an authoritarian personality?

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F-scale

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Evidence for the authoritarian personality came from

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case study interviews and the F-scale

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Aetiology of an authoritarian personality

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strict upbringing which results in you being a critical and harsh parent (Bowlby’s internal working model)

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Characteristics of an authoritarian personality

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  • obedience to authority
  • dogmatic
  • conservative attitudes
  • ethnocentric
40
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Adorno et al Study

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investigated unconscious attitudes towards other racial groups of more than 2000 middle class white americans

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Adorno et al study procedure

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Ppts given F-scale and would rate statements from 1 to 6 on how much they agree with them

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Adorno et al study findings

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AP identified with strong people who were contempuous of the weak and show excessive respect and defence for those of a higher status

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AP - AO3

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-low internal validity = obedience could be situational
-correlation does not equal causation = could be poor education
-self-report

44
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AP + AO3

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Milgram + Elms = 40ppts from Milgram’s study complete F-scale = obedient ppts scored highly and had close relationship to father, opposite for disobedient ppts

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