AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Obedience is the act of carrying out the requests or commands of a person of higher status within a social hierarchy. The most distinctive feature of the social-psychological approach to obedience is the primary role it accords to situational determinants.

Detailed explanation-2: -Two types of obedience are constructive obedience and destructive obedience.

Detailed explanation-3: -Obedience to authority is the tendency people have to try to please those in charge. Psychological evidence indicates that people tend to respect and follow those whom they perceive to have legitimate authority. This can lead to trouble if it causes people to fail to exercise their own independent ethical judgment.

Detailed explanation-4: -Obedience is compliance with commands given by an authority figure.

Detailed explanation-5: -Obedience occurs when you are told to do something (authority), whereas conformity happens through social pressure (the norms of the majority). Obedience involves a hierarchy of power / status. Therefore, the person giving the order has a higher status than the person receiving the order.