An educational psychologist suggests that 'while Milgram showed us what people do when commanded by authority, Bocchiaro et al. showed us how poorly we predict our own moral courage when given alternative paths of resistance like whistle-blowing.'
With reference to this statement, discuss how far Bocchiaro et al.’s contemporary study has changed or extended our understanding of the key theme 'Responses to people in authority' compared to Milgram’s classic research.
128 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Responses to people in authority, covering Milgram (1963): Obedience and Bocchiaro et al. (2012): Disobedience and whistle-blowing. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.