Dispositional explanation - authoritarian personality - adorno

Question 1

Dispositional explanation

Answer 1

any explanation of behaviour of the individual that highlights the importance of the indivuduals personality

Question 2

authoritarian personality

Answer 2

a type of personality argued with being susceptible to obeying people in authority

Question 3

Adorno - aim

Answer 3

-find if obedience is because of racial predujice in early childhood experiences when personality if formed
-see if people with authoritarian personality have tendency to be extremely obedience

Question 4

Adorno method

Answer 4

-studies 2000 americans who were white middle class background
-interviewed politic views and how they were brought up
-used pictures to find out if people were racially predijuce
- created F scale to measure racist view points

Question 5

Adorno - findings/conclusions

Answer 5

• childhoods with harsh/physical punishments obeyed more - learn respect for authority
• create feeling of conflict as hostile towards parents unconsciously - child displaces hostility towards others (racial groups) - Freud
• those who score highly on scale also scored highly on authoritarian personality test