Lesson 4.1.1.5
4.1.1.5 Authoritarian Personality Quiz: AQA Psychology, Unit 1
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The 20 questions
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Which theorist proposed the authoritarian personality as an explanation of obedience and prejudice?
- Bandura and colleagues
- Bowlby and colleagues
- Adorno and colleagues
- Milgram and colleagues
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What dispositional explanation suggests submissiveness to authority and hostility to minorities?
- Social support
- Authoritarian personality
- Minority influence
- Locus of control
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Which questionnaire was developed by Adorno to measure the authoritarian personality?
- The S-scale
- The F-scale
- The A-scale
- The E-scale
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According to Adorno, what childhood origin leads to an authoritarian personality?
- Permissive parenting
- Neglectful parenting
- Strict parenting
- Overprotective parenting
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Which key trait is most characteristic of the authoritarian personality?
- Empathy for minorities
- Respect for authority
- Unconditional resistance
- Openness to change
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What behaviour is predicted for someone scoring very high on the F-scale?
- High resistance
- High obedience
- Internal locus
- Low obedience
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Which methodological flaw directly affects the accuracy of Adorno's F-scale?
- Social desirability
- Acquiescence bias
- Observer bias
- Sampling bias
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Which factor does a dispositional explanation for obedience largely ignore?
- Personality traits
- Situational variables
- Individual differences
- Childhood experiences
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When obedience varies with personality scores and setting, which factors interact?
- Only situational
- Only dispositional
- Dispositional and situational
- Biological and genetic
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What is a main strength of using personality to explain obedience?
- Explains mass obedience
- Explains individual differences
- Proves direct causation
- Eliminates participant bias
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Why can Adorno's F-scale research not prove that personality directly causes obedience?
- It is correlational
- It lacks a control group
- It has a large sample
- It uses qualitative data
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Unquestioning compliance with orders from legitimate power figures is known as what?
- Agentic shift
- Authoritarian submission
- Informational influence
- Authoritarian aggression
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Why is dispositional personality a weak explanation for mass obedience in populations?
- Personalities vary widely
- Obedience is rare
- F-scales are illegal
- Situations never change
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What type of factor is the authoritarian personality in explaining obedience?
- Situational
- Dispositional
- Environmental
- Cultural
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What original questionnaire was developed by Adorno to measure authoritarianism?
- Eysenck Inventory
- MMPI scale
- C-scale
- F-scale
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High scores on Adorno's F-scale show a strong positive correlation with what?
- Prejudice
- Rebellion
- Altruism
- Empathy
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Which factor challenges Adorno's authoritarian personality as the sole cause of obedience?
- Participant age differences
- F-scale reliability
- Situational variations
- Lab experiment setting
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Unlike situational factors, what can dispositional explanations account for?
- Proximity variations
- Individual differences
- Location changes
- Uniform effects
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What does the occurrence of obedience in low authoritarian scorers suggest about Adorno's theory?
- It lacks reliability
- It is incomplete
- It is perfectly accurate
- It is entirely invalid
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Which term best describes the view that obedience is caused by a stable, internal set of traits?
- Agentic
- Normative
- Situational
- Dispositional
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