Jane Elliott – Flashcards
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What sparked Elliott's lesson in class?
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Martin Luther King Jr's Death
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What was Elliott's goal?
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To teach her students about racial issues
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What chemical did she say that blue-eyed people lacked?
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Melanin
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How did the attitudes of the discriminated students change?
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They seemed depressed and did not preform as well.
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When the groups were switched, how did the children react?
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The students who had just been discriminated against were less harsh on the other students
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How did parents react to the original experiment?
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They were unhappy, and did not agree with the lesson
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What was the nickname for the IQ Test given?
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Harvard Test of Inflected Acquisition
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What group of people was Rosenthal's study geared towards?
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1st to 6th grade students
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What did Rosenthal prove with the Pygmalion Effect?
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The students performed better because their teacher expected them to do better.
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How does Elliott and Rosenthal's experiment correlate?
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Both demonstrate that if you treat a selected group of people and treat them better, they will perform better.
