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A social psychologist investigated factors affecting obedience. The table below shows the percentages of participants who complied with three different requests made by an experimenter under two conditions: wearing an official security uniform, and wearing casual clothing (jeans and a t-shirt).

Table 1: Compliance rates by experimenter attire and request type

RequestOfficial security uniformCasual clothing
Complete a 15-minute unpaid survey about personal spending habits76%38%
Allow the experimenter to search their personal backpack55%15%
Pick up a dropped pen and hand it back to a passerby98%97%

What do these results suggest about obedience?

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Obedience Questions

  1. A Level
  2. /Psychology
  3. /Obedience

Practise AQA A Level Psychology Obedience with exam-style questions for A Level Psychology. 73 questions, matched to the AQA A Level Psychology (7182) specification and written in Paper 1, Paper 2 and Paper 3 style. Every question includes a full worked solution and mark scheme, so you can see where marks are awarded rather than just whether you got the answer right.

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