Experiment on Prejudice and Discrimination in a Third Grade Class: 'A Class Divided', Exercises of Psychology

Download Experiment on Prejudice and Discrimination in a Third Grade Class: 'A Class Divided' and more Exercises Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! A CLASS DIVIDED Question 1: What was Jane Elliot trying to teach her grade 3 class in the movie ‘a class divided”? Answer: She was conducting an experiment on prejudice and discrimination Question 2: What privileges were blue-eyed children granted the first day of the experiment? Answer: - they could use playground equipment and not the brown-eyed children; - They had five minutes extra recess time compared to brown-eyed children; - They were regarded as being cleverer than brown-eyed children Question 3: What impact did blue-eye privilege have on the children? Answer: - Blue-eyed children were treating brown-eyed children badly during recess and would not play with them. - The next day at school blue-eyed children did not wear their spectacles. - Within fifteen minutes of the commencement of the experiment blue- eyed children turned nasty and friends became enemies. Question 4: On the second day the brown-eyed children were given the privileges the blue-eyed children enjoyed on the first day. What impact did their privileged positions give brown-eyed children? Answer- they completed their card pack faster than the previous day. The blue-eyed children worked slower as they felt stupid and discriminated against. Question 5: As adult what did these children from Ms Elliot’s class teach their children? Answer- they were less prejudiced than other people in their community. They taught their children not to hate people from other races.