Examples of obedience in the following topics:
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- 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
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- For example, some dogs are bred specifically to be obedient, like golden retrievers; others are bred to be protective, like German shepards.
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- In the authoritarian style, parents put a high value on conformity and obedience.
- Authoritarian parents set rigid rules with firm consequences; in contrast to the authoritative style, authoritarian parents probably would not relax bedtime rules during a vacation because they consider the rules to be set, and they expect obedience at all times.
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- After the war, researchers became interested in a variety of social problems including gender issues, racial prejudice, cognitive dissonance, bystander intervention, aggression, and obedience to authority.
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- In contrast, authoritarian parenting (characterized by parents placing high value on conformity and obedience, tightly monitoring their children, and expressing less warmth) is seen as more beneficial in other cultures.
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- It is generally distinguished from obedience (behavior influenced by authority figures) and conformity (behavior intended to match that of a social majority).
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- In addition to catatonic stupor and catatonic excitement, examples of motor disturbances include stereotypy (repeated, non-goal directed movement such as rocking), mannerisms (normal, goal-directed activities that appear to have social significance, but are either odd in appearance or out of context, such as repeatedly running one's hand through one's hair or grimacing), mitgehen (moving a limb in response to slight pressure, despite being told to resist the pressure), ecopraxia (the imitation of the movements of another person), and automatic obedience (carrying out simple commands in a robot-like fashion).
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- It is important to distinguish deindividuation from obedience (when a person yields to
explicit instructions or orders from an authority figure), compliance (when a person responds favorably to a request from others) and conformity (when a
person attempts to match his attitudes to group norms, versus the total relinquishing
of individuality seen in deindividuation).
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- The 1961 Milgram experiments examining obedience to authority figures was a notable series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram.
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- It is generally distinguished from obedience (behavior influenced by authority figures) and compliance (behavior influenced by peers).