2- Dispositional explanations of obedience

• what is the authoritain personality

  A dispotional explanation of obedience

  Focuses on the importance of an indivudals perosnality

  Is a collection of traits that develop From strict parenting such as being conformist, conventional and dogmatic
• What was the aim of adorno et al 1950 study

  To examine the unconscious views of caucasian americans towards other racial groups
• What was the procedure of Adorno et al 1950 study

  Used 2000 middle class americans

  Developed several scales, including f scale for racism and made the ppts take them
• What were the findings of Adorno et al 1950

  Authoritarians scored high, intolerant of weak people and showed excessive respect for those of status

  Had a cognitive style of fixed stereotypes about other groups
• Who found right wing authoritarianism

  Altmeyer 1981
• What are the 3 traits that predispose right wing authoritarians to obedience?

  conventionalism - adhering to social norms

  Authoritarian aggression- aggression to those who violate norms

  Authoritarain submission- uncritical submission to authority
• What is a strength of the authoritarian personality as an explanation for obedinece

  P- supporting research

  E- milgram and elms 1966, had fully obedient ppts had link to high f scale score

  E-supports authoriradian personality , shows that f scale is predictor of obedience

  L-increased credibility as can be used in real world
• How is the f scale having methodolgical issues a weakness?

  P- f scale has methodologirls issues

  E- greenstein 1960, all Qs worded in same way, can get high f score by agreeing to everything

  E- agreeing≠authoritarian , low internal validity

  L- low credibility for real world obedience
• Why is the authoritarian personality not Being a complete explantion a weakness

  P- not complete explanation

  E- many antisemitc Germans, but not all had authorItalian personalities

  E- could be due to social identity theory, they identified with antisemitif state

  L- less usefulness, can’t explain everyone’s behaviour
• Why is the f scaled being politically bias a weakness

  P-f scale politically bias

  E-Christie and Jahoda 1954, also need left wing AuthoritArian for obedience

  E-not complete explanation as it doesn’t explain left wing countries

  L-low credibility as can’t be generalised to left
• What was milgrams and elms 1966 study

  Ppts from mil grams study in 2, groups of 20 obedient and 20 disobedient

  Assed via f scale, high obedience made higher f scores , shows strong link