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Key Assessment Task Social Psychology (12.1) a) Outline two psychological processes that may be involved in obedience to authority. Obedience is the following of someone else's instructions or orders to do something. The instructions are usually from someone who has authority such as a parent or teacher. Milgram proposed the agentic state theory; this is where we act as an agent of someone who has authority, it means that we find it easy to deny personal responsibility for our actions because we have just been following orders or doing our job. In 1950 Adorno expressed his beliefs that personality was a better explanation of obedience. Adorno believed that some people have an 'Authoritarian Personality', this means that they are likely to be obedient yet prejudiced. Adorno believed that your childhood experiences play a key role in the growth of an authoritarian personality. Individuals with this type of personality often have certain characteristics such...

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