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WEEK 8 Obedience Tutorial task eight

COURSE: - BESC1072 ASSESSMENT DUE DATE: -19/09/2021 NAME: - Harshita Sachdeva STUDENT ID: - s3784989 COURSE COORDINATOR/LECTURER: - Merv Jackson

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Activity 1: Understanding obedience Question 1: Define and explain both legitimate and illegitimate obedience [ reference]. Legitimate obedience refers to a person's willingness to obey someone with a higher position or rank in a social hierarchy. Consider a police officer fining a speeding vehicle. Illegitimate obedience, on the other hand, arises when people tend to obey instructions from people who aren't authorized by the law and even in accordance with established standards or norms, implying that they don't have the authority to command. A doctor, for example, does not have the right to punish a speeding car.(Passini & Morselli 2009)

Question 2: Briefly describe Milgram’s obedience study and the key finding [reference]. Milgram's obedience study involved forty male volunteer participants. Each subject was assigned to perform the role of teacher. The teacher had to give the student an electric shock every time the learner made a mistake by flipping a switch. As well as increase the strength of the shock until it reached a dangerous level. The learner was not an experimenter subject but Milgram’s accomplice, and he never actually received an electric shock. However, he pretended to be in pain when shocks were administered. Despite feeling that the learner was in extreme pain and distress, Milgram discovered that two-thirds of the teachers (26 out of 40 participants) did give even the most severe degree of shock. Milgram believed that the instructors responded in this manner because of pressure from a higher authority figure.(Reicher & Haslam 2015) Question 3. Provide four examples within the following framework:

Appropriate obedience

Illegitimate obedience

Child less than 12 years old - Obeying a teacher to finish their homework on time

Adult -Obeying our government by staying at home during lockdown

Example: Obeying a parent to not run out onto a busy road

Example: Motorist obeying road speed limit

-Performing illegal sexual behaviours on an adult when asked by that adult

-Being told to kill someone due to personal issues.

Example: Promising to stay silent about sexual abuse

Example: Milgram’s request to administer lethal electric shocks

Question 4: What is the distinguishing feature between: a. Obedience by children compared to adults Children typically do not have a choice since they are not independent or capable of distinguishing between right and wrong, but adults can assertively defy and are aware of what is right, allowing them to make their judgments. b. Appropriate obedience compared to illegitimate obedience Appropriate obedience comes from a lawful authority and typically helps the person. Illegitimate obedience, on the other hand, comes from persons who are not authorized by the law, and their demands may harm an individual and are unethical. 2

Activity 2: Application of obedience research

Question 5: Identify and describe one of two situations A. either your own example of obedience - where you felt compelled to obey someone’s command/request (eg, loan someone something [lecture notes] that you wanted to use at the same time) or B. a published one [eg the McDonald’s hoax] that involves illegitimate use of obedience A) At work, one of the machines broke down, and I knew how to fix it, but my supervisor insisted on

doing it their way, even though I knew it was wrong, and I had no choice but to follow their directions because they were in a higher position than me. Question 6: Equate the structure of the setting to Milgram’s design (For example, in the McDonald’s hoax equate Milgram’s “teacher” to the McDonald’s manager) Both cases demonstrate the teacher's and manager's perceptions of authority, as they were instructed by what they believed to be a valid authority. The teachers in Milgram's experiment were listening to a third person in a lab coat, whereas the manager in the McDonald's hoax was listening to a person posing as a policeman. Individuals were also deceived since they were lied to in both cases. Milgram's experiment took place in a laboratory, making the subjects believe it was genuine, while the other took place at McDonald's, making the management believe it was serious as well.(Wolfson 2006) Question 7: Explain how the situation might have been changed to avoid illegitimate obedience (For example, in the McDonald’s hoax, how could management have prepared staff for hoax callers) To avoid illegitimate obedience, the management should have used greater caution and called the police station rather than conducting the strip search in the office. They should have transported her to the police station right away since the management believed the fake caller about the employee committing a crime. Alternatively, they should have encouraged the police officer to come to the restaurant to discuss the situation in person.

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