Lesson 1.1.3
1.1.3 Factors affecting obedience and dissent Quiz: Pearson Edexcel Psychology, Unit 1
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What situational factor reduced obedience when Milgram moved his experiment to a rundown office block?
- Social support
- Participant proximity
- Authoritarian personality
- Institutional legitimacy
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Which personality type, identified by Adorno, is associated with high levels of obedience?
- Authoritarian personality
- External personality
- Introverted personality
- Neurotic personality
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In Bickman's 1974 field study, which outfit produced the highest level of participant obedience?
- Milkman uniform
- Security guard
- Business suit
- Civilian clothes
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What do most psychological studies conclude about gender differences in overall obedience levels?
- No consistent difference
- Women far higher
- Men far higher
- Complete gender opposition
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What factor reduced participant obedience in Milgram's variation involving disobedient peer confederates?
- Social support
- Deindividuation
- Systemic authority
- Agentic state
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What do cross-cultural replications of Milgram's study generally show about overall obedience rates?
- Extreme cultural variation
- Significantly lower worldwide
- Zero obedience non-Western
- Broadly similar rates
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What situational factor describes the physical closeness of an authority figure to the participant?
- Authoritarianism
- Legitimacy
- Proximity
- Locus of control
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Which situational factor increases obedience when authority figures are perceived to hold socially accepted power?
- Internal locus
- Disobedient peers
- Legitimate authority
- Remote communication
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Which psychological approach proposes that obedience results from both situational and dispositional factors combining?
- Dispositional approach
- Interactionist approach
- Behaviourist approach
- Biological approach
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Why can research into personality traits not prove that personality causes obedience?
- It lacks reliability
- It is qualitative
- It uses meta-analysis
- It is correlational
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Which personality trait is associated with high levels of deference to authority figures?
- Extraversion
- Authoritarianism
- Psychoticism
- Neuroticism
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Which type of factor includes personal traits such as empathy when explaining resistance to obedience?
- Individual difference
- Situational factor
- Environmental factor
- Cultural factor
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What term describes refusing to follow a direct order given by an authority figure?
- Conformity
- Internalisation
- Compliance
- Dissent
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Which researcher investigated obedience in a field setting using different uniforms on street pedestrians?
- Sherif
- Tajfel
- Bickman
- Milgram
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Which situational factor leads to a decrease in participant obedience levels?
- Prestigious location
- Close proximity
- A dissenting peer
- Uniformed authority
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What factor explains why obedience drops when an authority figure lacks perceived status or uniform?
- Informational influence
- Group cohesion
- Authority legitimacy
- Social identity
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What type of factors did Milgram systematically alter across his classic experiment variations?
- Genetic factors
- Situational factors
- Cultural factors
- Personality traits
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Why are individual differences considered an incomplete explanation for variations in obedience?
- Personality is fixed
- Data is qualitative
- Gender is identical
- Situations also matter
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What do research findings generally show regarding gender differences in rates of obedience?
- Women obey more
- They are inconsistent
- Men obey more
- Differences are huge
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Which situational factor is most likely to increase a participant's level of obedience?
- Distant authority
- High authority prestige
- Ordinary clothing
- Dissenting peers
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