How can buffers increase obedience levels

Agentic state by gbaptie views 3. Embed Size px. Start on. Show related SlideShares at end. WordPress Shortcode. Next SlideShares. Download Now Download to read offline and view in fullscreen. Download Now Download Download to read offline. Explanations of obedience Download Now Download Download to read offline. Agentic state. The concept of the authoritarian personality!!!!

Dispositional factors. PSYA2 Jan Obedience to authority. Resourcd File. View shopping cart. View mytutor2u. Account Shopping cart Logout. Explore Psychology Psychology Search. Explore Blog Reference library Collections Shop. Share: Facebook Twitter Email Print page. Agentic State An agentic state is when an individual carries out the orders of an authority figure and acts as their agent, with little personal responsibility. Our subjects Our Subjects.

Explore Explore. Bickman directly tested the effect of a uniform in his field experiment in New York in which he asked passersby to pick up a piece of litter, stand the other side of a stop side or give a stranger money. I really enjoy the effort put in. If there are buffers there are aspects of the situation that protect people from having to deal with the consequences of their actions. Gradual commitment is yet another explanation of obedience and it explains how introducing things in small stages can lead to greater obedience.

By committing the participants in small stages this established a basis for obedience and as each shock only a small amount larger than the previous one it made it difficult for the participant to back out at any time.

This therefore made it very difficult for his participants to obey. Individual factors take into account that personality type plays a role in obedience. It has been speculated that some people are born with a tendency to be passive whereas some are more likely to be dominant. Adorno in developed the idea of an authoritarian personality, which describes the former type of person. He stated that those with an authoritarian personality are more likely to obey, due to their passive nature.

There are weaknesses to all of the situational factors that help to explain obedience. For example they are reductionist as they fail to take into account the role of the individual.

There is evidence in research to support the importance of the individual, for instance Milgram. Medieval literature. Proverbs and Idioms. Vocab Builder. Criminal Justice. Political Science. Religion and Bible.

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