Practise Edexcel Psychology questions on situational and individual factors affecting obedience, applying proximity, authority, personality and locus of control.
Milgram completed a number of experiments into obedience.
Explain one individual difference that could affect whether someone is obedient. (2)
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AO1 (1 mark) AO3 (1 mark)
Credit one mark for accurate identification of individual
difference (AO1).
Credit one mark for justification of individual difference (AO3).
For example:
- Adorno (1950) claimed that those with an authoritarian
personality tend to obey (1) Elms and Milgram (1966)
found that those with an authoritarian personality are said
to like rules, which leads to high levels of obedience (1).
Look for other reasonable marking points.
(2)