At a community theatre, the director tells two volunteer stage assistants to stop a cast member from rehearsing and send them home, although this is likely to upset the cast member. Volunteer A often says that people in charge must always be respected and obeyed, sees most issues as fixed rules with no exceptions, and looks down on people A considers to be beneath them. Volunteer B does not share these views.
Explain which volunteer is more likely to obey the director, and predict, giving a reason, how Volunteer A would respond to an order from someone in charge in a different setting.
76 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 4.2 Theories/Explanations, covering 4.2.1 Situational factors on conformity and crowds, 4.2.2 Situational factors on culture and obedience; criticisms, 4.2.3 Situational Factors research study: Bickman (1974), 4.2.4 Dispositional factors on conformity, crowds, morality, obedience, 4.2.5 Brain in dispositional factors; criticisms, and 4.2.6 Dispositional Factors research study: NatCen (2011). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.