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Flashcards by Elise Lambert, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Elise Lambert
over 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Who did research into the authoritarian personality? | Adorno et al |
| Who did Adorno use as participants and how many? | 2000 middle class, white americans |
| What scale did Adorno come up with? | The F-Scale |
| what does the F-scale stand for? | Fascism scale |
| What does the F-scale measure? | The authoritarian personality |
| What did Adorno find in his studies? | He found that authoritarian personalities were very conscious of their own and others' status, showing respect to higher and contempt to lower classes. There was also a strong correlation between Authoritarian personalities and prejudice. |
| What is an Authoritarian personality? | A type of personality that is especially susceptible to obeying people in authority. they are submissive to higher status and dismissive to lower status. |
| What type of parenting do authoritarian personalities generally grow up with? | Strict/ harsh parenting. Conditional love: the love an affection for their child depends on how they behave |
| What does strict parenting create in a child? | resentment and hostility towards their parents |
| How do authoritarian personalities express their feelings. | they displace onto others who are perceived to be weaker. 'scapegoating' |
| What is a limited explanation to Adorno's findings? | It has a limited explanation because it cannot explain why a whole population can act in an obedient way to cause harm- wartime Germany |
| What is a limitation of the F-Scale? | The F-scale has acquiescence bias which suggests that the participants were just ticking the boxes unconditionally. |
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