Amira grew up in a village where families take turns to mind each other's children, and she still helps her neighbours without being asked. She now works at a football stadium. On match day, a steward wearing a hi-vis jacket and a lanyard tells her to move away from an exit, and she does so at once.
Explain Amira's behaviour using culture and authority figures as situational factors.
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.