AP PSYCHOLOGY

SENSATION AND PERCEPTION

VISION SENSORY AND PERCEPTUAL PROCESSING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is obedience?
A
When an individual’s thoughts, feelings, opinions, beliefs, and/or behavior are affected by the pressure of others.
B
Having a certain quality which gives one person more influence over another
C
To change behaviour, opinion, perception or attitude, due to pressure to fit in.
D
Following the order of someone with a higher status
Explanation: 

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: -Obedience is obeying someone with a higher status; conformity is going along with people of equal status. Obedience relies on social power; conformity relies on the need to be socially accepted.

Detailed explanation-3: -Two types of obedience are constructive obedience and destructive obedience.

Detailed explanation-4: -Obedience, in human behavior, is a form of “social influence in which a person yields to explicit instructions or orders from an authority figure". Obedience is generally distinguished from compliance, which is behavior influenced by peers, and from conformity, which is behavior intended to match that of the majority.

Detailed explanation-5: -Obedience and conformity are two kinds of social influences when people change attitude or behavior under the influence of the views of others. The term “obedience” refers to direct requests from an authority figure to one or more persons (Nail et al., 2000).

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