obedience dispositional explanations

Question 1

dispositional explanation

Answer 1

internal explanation e.g. personality

Question 2

Adorno et al (1950) procedure

Answer 2

• f scale to measure authority personality
• questionnaire
• questions revealed unconscious feeling towards minority groups

Question 3

authority personality

Answer 3

when you believe people should completely obey authority figures and suppress their own beliefs

• hostile to those who are inferior/lower
• individuals bought up by strict parents displace their aggression onto safer targets namely those who are weaker
• no fuzziness between categories
• fixed distinctive stereotypes

Question 4

disadvantages:

Answer 4

1. suggests there is a strong link between authoritarian personality and the following order is correlated
   - could be the 3rd factor
   - lower-income or poor education results in both behaviors
2. f scale questionnaire lacked internal validity
   - one-directional questions = agreeing to all questions = authoritarian
   - response bias

Question 5

advantages:

Answer 5

1. Elmes and Milgram 1966
   - interviewed ppts who had taken part in Milgram’s study
   - full shock 450volts scored higher on f scale = authoritarian personality
   - real life evidence