Maria is driving along her normal route to work when a police officer stops her and directs her to take a different route. she is not sure why she has to take the detour, but she does what the police officer tells her to do.
the process that best explains maria’s actions in this instance is:

a) obedience
b) ingratiation
c) reciprocity
d) conformity

a) Obedience    

Explanation:

Obedience: The term has been first studied by one of the famous social psychologists Stanley Milgram while conducting his research on obedience study during the 1960s.

In social psychology, the term obedience is described as the process of administering compliance on the authority figure's command. The term obedience signifies that an individual has a strong propensity to comply with that of the authority figures.

In the question above, the process that best explains Maria’s actions in this instance is obedience.

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