Agentic shift - Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

Milgram's Shock Experiment -Milgrams shock experiment, participants would ask confederates questions and each time confederate gets the question wrong, shocked starting at 15 volts up to 450. Experimenter would say it is "absolutely essential that you continue". -Found that 65% went to 450 volts and all participants went to 300 volts. Situational variables affecting obedience Proximity - In the proximity study, the student and teacher were put in the same room and obedience fell due...

Includes situational variables, situational explanations, and dispositional explanations of obedience. and evaluations, in short, note form.

Question 01 One explanation for the resistance to social influence is locus of control. When individuals have an internal locus of control, they are less likely to blindly obey authority figures as they are less likely to make the shift to agentic state because they believe they are responsible for their actions. They are also less likely to demonstrate normative social influence as they are less influenced by what others think. Another explanation for the resistance to social influence is...

SOCIAL INFLUENCE Question 01 One explanation for the resistance to social influence is locus of control. When individuals have an internal locus of control, they are less likely to blindly obey authority figures as they are less likely to make the shift to agentic state because they believe they are responsible for their actions. They are also less likely to demonstrate normative social influence as they are less influenced by what others think. Another explanation for the resistance...

SOCIAL INFLUENCE Question 01 One explanation for the resistance to social influence is locus of control. When individuals have an internal locus of control, they are less likely to blindly obey authority figures as they are less likely to make the shift to agentic state because they believe they are responsible for their actions. They are also less likely to demonstrate normative social influence as they are less influenced by what others think. Another explanation for the resistance to s...