CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The authoritarian personality is thought to emerge from childhood experiences. This reasoning comes from Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory. Freud suggested that childhood experiences, especially those with parents, lead to people’s attitudes as adults.

Detailed explanation-2: -a personality pattern characterized by strict adherence to highly simplified conventional values, an attitude of great deference to authority figures while demanding subservience from those regarded as lower in status, and hostility toward people who deviate from conventional moral prescriptions.

Detailed explanation-3: -The authoritarian personality was first identified by Adorno et al. (1950) and refers to a person who has extreme respect for authority and is more likely to be obedient to those who hold power over them.

Detailed explanation-4: -People with an authoritarian personality tend to be rigid thinkers, who are obedient to authority in most cases. They have a strict adherence to social values, and show hostility to inferiors, but servility to superiors.