Blue Eye/Brown Eye Experiment

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Blue Eye/Brown Eye Experiment

• Jill, Jassmin, Marlene

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Purpose

• To try segregation through eye color instead of
  skin color.
• It was a result of Martin Luther King Jr.s
  assassination, as well as the idea was derived
  from Hitlers attempt at the holocaust.

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Who?

• Jane Elliot was the creator of the experiment.
• Her students (grade 3) served as her guinea pigs.

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The Experiment

• On the first day, the blue-eyed children were
  called superior. The brown-eyed kids were told to
  wear blue collars to show they were inferior.

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• The blue-eyed children received special
  privileges, such as
• Second helpings at lunch
• Got to play on the new jungle gym
• Five minutes of extra recess
• And got to sit at the front of the room

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• The blue-eyed children were encouraged to only
  play with blue-eyed children and ignore
  brown-eyed children.
• Blue-eyes and brown-eyes were not allowed to
  drink from the same water fountain.
• Brown-eyed children were often scolded for
  mistakes.

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• A large change happened in the first fifteen
  minutes.
• At first, the minority group, brown-eyes,
  resisted. Elliot told them that the blue-eyed
  children were smarter because of their blue-eyes.
  They stopped resisting.

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• The blue-eyes became bossy and arrogant, while
  the brown-eyes became timid and obedient.

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• The second day, brown-eyed children were
  superior.
• Less intense taunting came from the brown-eyed
  children.
• At the end of the day, Elliot told the blue-eyed
  children to take off the collars and all the
  children cried and hugged each other.

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What was discovered?

• There was almost immediate change in the
  children's behavior towards the minority group.
  It was discovered that when someone is told that
  they are better/smarter than someone, they begin
  to act like they are superior.
• It exposes our part in prejudice, showing what it
  really is. Which is an irrational class system
  based on nothing.

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• The children that were superior their grades went
  up during mathematical and reading tasks that
  seemed outside their ability before.
• The inferior children failed tasks that before
  had been simple.
• It exposes our part in prejudice, showing what it
  really is. Which is an irrational class system
  based on nothing.

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How did it change psychology?

• Added her information to the knowledge base and
  showed how powerful the power of suggestion can
  be with people.
• Her study also showed how readily people will
  accept ideas told to them by an authority figure.
• In conclusion, we are being taught by Jane how
  racism is created.
• Self fulfilling prophecy a prediction that
  directly or indirectly causes itself to become
  true by the very terms of the prophecy itself due
  to positive or negative feedback

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Video!

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vew_2G-jb5ekfeature
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Bibliography

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Elliott
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