obedience

Examples of obedience in the following topics:

• Obedience

  • Following the Second World War—and in particular the Holocaust—psychologists set out to investigate the phenomenon of human obedience.
  • They quickly found that the majority of humans are surprisingly obedient to authority.
  • After running these experiments, Milgram and Zimbardo concluded that the following factors affect obedience:
  • Prestige of the experimenter: Something as simple as wearing a lab coat or not wearing a lab coat can affect levels of obedience; authority figures with more prestige elicit more obedience; both researchers have suggested that the prestige associated with Yale and Stanford respectively may have influenced obedience in their experiments.
  • Explain how the Milgram and Stanford Prison experiments informed our understanding of human obedience

• Charismatic Authority

  • Charismatic authority is power legitimized by a leader's exceptional personal qualities, which inspire loyalty and obedience from followers.
  • Charismatic authority is power legitimized on the basis of a leader's exceptional personal qualities, or the demonstration of extraordinary insight and accomplishment, which inspire loyalty and obedience from followers.

• Conformity and Obedience

  • In human behavior, obedience is a form of social influence in which a person accepts instructions or orders from an authority figure.
  • Stanley Milgram created a highly controversial and often replicated study of obedience.
  • The other classical study on obedience was conducted at Stanford University during the 1970's.
  • Differentiate among compliance, identification, and internalization; and between obedience and conformity

• Authority Patterns

  • Parents who practice authoritarian style parenting have a strict set of rules and expectations and require rigid obedience.
  • If rules are not followed, punishment is most often used to ensure obedience.

• Child Rearing

  • Parents who practice it have a set of rules and expectations, and they require rigid obedience.
  • If rules are not followed, punishment is most often used to ensure obedience.

• The Milgram Experiment: The Power of Authority

  • However, Milgram's experiments relate to any question of obedience and authority.
  • The Milgram experiment—based on obedience to authority figures—was a series of notable social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram in the 1960s.
  • The second is the agentic state theory, where, according to Milgram, "the essence of obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view themselves as the instrument for carrying out another person's wishes, and they therefore no longer see themselves as responsible for their actions..."

• The Influence of Genes on Behavior

  • For example, some dogs are bred specifically to be obedient, like golden retrievers; others are bred to be protective, like German shepards.

• Delegation of Authority

  • A leader in a formal, hierarchical organization, who is appointed to a managerial position, has the right to command and enforce obedience by virtue of the authority of his position.

• The Working Class

  • Research showing that working-class students are taught to value obedience over leadership and creativity can partially account for the difficulties that many working-class individuals face upon entering colleges and universities.

• Formal Means of Control

  • From a legal perspective, sanctions are penalties or other means of enforcement used to provide incentives for obedience with the law, or rules and regulations.