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AQA Obedience; dispositional explainations
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Obedience :D osputional ExplanationsThe Authoritarian Personality
High obedience in pathological
top Adorno et la c 1950) believed unquestioning obedience is
that a
psychological
disorder ,
and tried to
grind its cause in the individuals personality .
'
Extreme respect
for authority
'
and contempt for inferiors
HD Adorno et la concluded that people with an Authoritarian personality are
especially obedient to
authority .
They :
a. Have exaggerated respect for authority and submissiveness to this
b- Express contempt for people of inferior social status
WB Authoritarians orders and
'
other
'
tend to view
gollow groups as
responsible for societies ius .
Originates in childhood Ceg overly
: strict parenting)
↳ Authoritarian Personality forms in childhood through harsh parenting
-
extremely strict discipline , expectations of absolute loyalty , impossibly
high standards, and severe coition
• It is also characterised condition love parents love depends
by
-
entirely on now their child behaves .
Hostility is
displaced onto social inferiors
↳ these experiences resentment hostility in the child , but
create and they
their
cannot express these feelings airectiy against parents because they
feel reprisals
↳ So onto others are weaker this is
the
feelings are ais pierced who
-
scapegoating This is a
psychodynamic explanation
.
.
Adorno et al Cia 50) -
Authoritarian Personality
Procedure
The study investigated unconscious attitudes towards other ethnic groups of
more than 2000 middle class while Americans .
several scales were developed including the potential fascism scale CF scale)
,
for
Examples from the F scale crated on a scale 2- 6 Where 6=
strongly agree) :
'
a. obedience and respect gor authority are the most important virtues
for
'
children to learn .
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