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obedience: dispositional explanations
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AS - Level psychology (chapter 1 - social influence ) Mind Map on obedience: dispositional explanations, created by Daisy U on 26/03/2016.
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obedience: dispositional explanations
authoritarian personality
Adorno wanted to understand the Holocaust
high levels of obedience was because of a psychological disorder
procedure
Adorno
obedient personality study
2000 middle class white Americans
looked at their unconscious attitudes towards racial groups
the potential for fascism scale
f scale
measures authoritarian personality
findings
high score = condescending of the weak, conscious of others status
they also had fixed stereotypes for people
there was a strong correlation between authoritarianism and prejudice
authoritarian characteristics
authoritarian personality are more obedient to authority
submissive to authority
prejudice to those of lower social status
prejudice about sex race and gender
need strong authority to enforce traditional values
origin of authoritarian personality
formed in childhood from harsh parenting
this creates resentment in the child but the child can't take it out on the parents
so takes it out on the inferior as they see the parents do - scapegoating
this is a psychodynamic explanation
evaluation
research support
Milgram
interviewed people with a high score on the f scale
he thought there was a link between obedience and authoritarian personality
just a correlation between 2 measurable variables
don't know cause and effect - may be a third factor involved
limited explanation
millions of Germans showed high obedience and were racist
they couldn't all have had the same personality
social identity explains obedience
Germans identified with Nazis and scapegoated the Jews
political bias
f scale measures an extreme form of right wing ideology
Christie & Jahoda
it is a politically biased interpretation of authoritarian personality
it shows importance of complete obedience of legitimate political authority
evaluation +
methodological problems
the f scale is based on flawed methodology
Greenstein
every question is worded in the same direction
if you ticked all down one row you would get a high score
may be measuring the tendency to agree with everything
researcher bias
Ardono interviewed the people and knew their scores and he knew the hypothesis
correlation not causation
high authoritarian was linked to prejudice against minority
however does not show cause and effect
so harsh parenting styles may not have cause authoritarian personality
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