Dr Aris is a junior researcher at a pharmaceutical lab. He is instructed by the lead laboratory director to omit a minor outlier from a clinical trial data report. Dr Aris complies and deletes the data point.
Psychologists have investigated the role of personality, such as locus of control, in obedience.
Explain how Dr Aris's locus of control may have affected his obedience in deleting the data point.
171 exam-style questions on Edexcel A Level Psychology Content, covering Theories of obedience, Research into obedience (Milgram variations), Factors affecting obedience and dissent, Explanations and research into prejudice, Factors affecting prejudice, Individual differences in obedience/prejudice, and Developmental psychology in obedience/prejudice. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.