The objective of the experiment was to teach her students what prejudice and discrimination meant and felt like.
According to Plotnik and Kouyoumdjian (2014), prejudice refers to negative feelings towards others because of their association to another group. It is “unfair, biased, or intolerant”. Discrimination refers to a “specific” set of negative behaviors towards people of another group.
The exercise began with Jane dividing the class into groups: one with the blue-eyed kids and the other with the brown- and green-eyed kids. She informed them that the brown-eyed kids were better, as they were “smarter and cleaner”. She convinced her students that melanin is what causes intelligence, and this is why brown-eyed kids are smarter.
As a result, …show more content…
Self-schemas contain information about ourselves, and this information influences how we perceive, think and behave with other people. Upon being told that they were the better people, the brown-eyed kids formed a self-schema where they are ‘more superior’. This self-schema influences them to treat the blue-eyed kids badly as they are ‘inferior’, and makes them feel more self-confident as they know they are the better group. It’s the opposite for the blue-eyed kids who are experiencing the discrimination, and therefore have more negative …show more content…
(Plotnik & Kouyoumdjian, 2014)
Here, the brown-eyed students blame the blue-eyed students
A collectivistic culture depends on group harmony and consensus. An individualistic culture depends upon the values of freedom and independence. (Lombardo, J. n.d.)
According to O'Neil, D. (2011), socialization refers to “the general process of acquiring culture”. Culture refers to the “set of ideas, behaviors, attitudes, and traditions that exist within large groups of people and is passed down from generation to generation.”
Non-special needs students make up the majority of society, and they are what our society deems ‘normal’, thus their transition into a social life is generally easy. Special needs students however, go through a very different experience when going out into the world, as people will judge them, be it because they doubt their mental or physical capabilities or simply out of pure
According to Plotnik and Kouyoumdjian (2014), prejudice refers to negative feelings towards others because of their association to another group. It is “unfair, biased, or intolerant”. Discrimination refers to a “specific” set of negative behaviors towards people of another group.
The exercise began with Jane dividing the class into groups: one with the blue-eyed kids and the other with the brown- and green-eyed kids. She informed them that the brown-eyed kids were better, as they were “smarter and cleaner”. She convinced her students that melanin is what causes intelligence, and this is why brown-eyed kids are smarter.
As a result, …show more content…
Self-schemas contain information about ourselves, and this information influences how we perceive, think and behave with other people. Upon being told that they were the better people, the brown-eyed kids formed a self-schema where they are ‘more superior’. This self-schema influences them to treat the blue-eyed kids badly as they are ‘inferior’, and makes them feel more self-confident as they know they are the better group. It’s the opposite for the blue-eyed kids who are experiencing the discrimination, and therefore have more negative …show more content…
(Plotnik & Kouyoumdjian, 2014)
Here, the brown-eyed students blame the blue-eyed students
A collectivistic culture depends on group harmony and consensus. An individualistic culture depends upon the values of freedom and independence. (Lombardo, J. n.d.)
According to O'Neil, D. (2011), socialization refers to “the general process of acquiring culture”. Culture refers to the “set of ideas, behaviors, attitudes, and traditions that exist within large groups of people and is passed down from generation to generation.”
Non-special needs students make up the majority of society, and they are what our society deems ‘normal’, thus their transition into a social life is generally easy. Special needs students however, go through a very different experience when going out into the world, as people will judge them, be it because they doubt their mental or physical capabilities or simply out of pure