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What is the dispositional explanation?

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perception of behaviour as caused by internal characteristics of individuals

2
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Authoritarian personality characteristics?

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  • holds rigid beliefs
  • intolerant of ambiguity
  • submissive to authority
  • hostile to lower status people
3
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What did Adorno measure?

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individuals degree of having an authoritarian personality by asking them 20 questions which made up the F-scale questionnaire

4
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What Zilmer et al report? (nazi’s)

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16 nazi war criminals scored highly on certain portions of the F-scale but not on all 9 sections

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What did Elms and Milgram find? (Milgrams study)

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found participants in Milgrams study who were highly obedient were significantly more authoritarian on the F-scale than disobedient participants

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What did Altemeyer report?

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participants with an authoritarian personality who were ordered to give themselves shocks, gave higher shocks than those without the personality

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F-scale research support?

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although it has research support, supposedly authoritarian individuals do not always score highly on all dimensions

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What does the F-scale suffer from?

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response bias as the wording is in a confirmed direction

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What did Altemeyer produce?

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the less biased scale

10
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How is the theory politically biased?

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individuals are only seen as existing on the conservative side