Situational explenations for obedience

Question 1

Situational explanations

Answer 1

Environmental factors that contribute to behavior

Question 2

What is the agentic state

Answer 2

When you’re acting on behalf of an authority figure and taking no responsibility for you’re actions

Question 3

What is an autonomous state

Answer 3

When you act as your own agent and take responsibility for your own actions

Question 4

What is the agentic shift

Answer 4

When you shift from an autonomous to an agentic state in the presence of an authority figure

Question 5

What are binding factors that maintain the agentic state

Answer 5

-Ignoring and minimizing harm caused by placing blame on the authority - this reduces moral strain
-Victim blaming

Question 6

Legitimacy of authority

Answer 6

People that hold positions of power over you as dictated by society

Question 7

Cultural differences legitimacy of authority

Answer 7

-Countries differ in degree to which they are traditionally obedient
-Milgrams experiment
-Australia-16%
-Germany-85%
-supports legitimacy of authority because diff countries are more accepting of authority so have diff obedience

Question 8

Contradicting research

Answer 8

-Rank and Jacobson
-16/18 nurses refused to administer an excessive drug to a patient

Question 9

Supporting research agentic shift

Answer 9

-When Ppt resisted in Milgram’s study and asked who was responsible he responded saying that he was responsible
-Most continued afterwards