At a garden centre, the manager tells Priya and Callum to re-price a display of plant pots, and both do it straight away. Later that day, a sixteen-year-old who has just started a Saturday job notices that a stack of compost bags is leaning and asks them to help him restack it before it falls. Priya tells him that a Saturday worker has no business telling her what to do, and walks off. Callum helps him, saying that it is a sensible thing to ask whoever is asking.
Use your knowledge of the authoritarian personality to explain Priya's and Callum's behaviour.
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.