SI Ao1/Ao3

Question 1

What is locus of control?

Answer 1

Locus of Control is a persons ability to resist conformity through their ways of thinking and beliefs.

Internal Locus of control: Believe that their life is defined by their own decisions and actions

External Locus of Control: Belief that their life is defined by external forces such as luck or fate.

Question 2

What year did Oliner and Oliner conduct their study?

Answer 2

1998

Question 3

What did Oliner and Oliner(1998) find?

Answer 3

Compared non-jewish WWII survivors, comparing those who resisted orders with those who conformed to them, finding that the “rescuers” were more likely to have a high internal locus of control than the obeyers.

Question 4

What year did Spector do his study on LOC?

Answer 4

1983

Question 5

What did Spector (1983) find?

Answer 5

Found that individuals with a high internal LOC were less likely to conform than people with External BUT only in situations of NSI, if it was ISI, both groups conformed the same.

Question 6

What is the authoritarian personality?

Answer 6

The authoritarian personality is a dispositional factor that effects obedience, making an individual more likely to obey. If a person has this personality they will be dismissive to their inferiors, and submissive to their superiors.

Question 7

What did adorno (1950) do?

Answer 7

Adorno (1950) made the F-Scale, a 30 question questionnaire that measured if an individual had an authoritarian personality.

Question 8

How was Adornos F-Scale applied to Milgram?

Answer 8

Milgram and Elms (1966) took 20 450 Volt’ers, and 20 Non conformists and gave them the F-Scale. They found that the indivudials who confirmed were more likely to score higher of F scale than those who didnt.

Question 9

Support for F-Scale and Authoritarian Personality:

Answer 9

Milgram and Elms (1966)

Question 10

Negatives of F-Scale and Authoritarian Personality

Answer 10

Response Bias/Social Desirability - Questionnaire means that P’s can answer to what they believe is socially correct, rather than their personal beliefs.

Cannot explain obedience on a mass scale - eg Nazi Germany, all of the Germans had varying personality, therefore they cannot ALL be authoritarian.

Only correlational - only making inferences between authoritarian and obedience levels without any kind of data to ``1