Maya, a junior sous chef, is frantically prepping her own signature dish for an upcoming national culinary showcase. However, the executive head chef, Chef Sterling, commands Maya to stop her preparation and spend the next two hours deep-cleaning the ventilation hoods and hand-polishing the copper pots.
Using agency theory, explain why Maya might have obeyed Chef Sterling's commands despite the urgent need to focus on her own dish.
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.