At a museum, visitors are asked to leave their bags at the entrance. When a guard in uniform gives the instruction, almost every visitor obeys. When another visitor in ordinary clothes gives the same instruction, most people ignore it.
Use the authority factor in Agency theory to explain the difference in obedience.
50 exam-style questions on Oxford AQA IGCSE Psychology 2.2 Social influence, covering 2.2.1 Factors affecting conformity, 2.2.2 Conformity: Asch, 2.2.3 Obedience and Agency theory, 2.2.4 Dispositional factors in obedience, 2.2.5 Factors affecting bystander intervention, 2.2.6 Studies of bystander behaviour, and 2.2.7 Collective behaviour in crowds. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.