Dot to dot. A new skill every day. In five minutes. Hey guys, today we are going to look at an experiment.
No we're not. We're going to look at a skill that covers experiments. In this case, mind experiments. Mind blowing.
Psychological experiments. Alexa, open mind experiments. Here's your mind blowing fact. A class divided.
Inspired by the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., third grade teacher Jane Elliott created an exercise in 1968 to help her white students understand the effects of racism. Elliot divided her class into two groups, blue-eyed students and brown-eyed students. On the first day, she designated the blue-eyed children as a superior group and gave them extra privileges, while the brown-eyed children represented the minority group.
She discouraged the two groups from interacting and singled out students to emphasize the negative aspects of those in the minority group. She noticed immediate changes in the behavior of the children. Blue-eyed students performed better academically and some began bullying their brown-eyed classmates, while brown-eyed students experienced lower self-confidence and worse academic performance. The next day, she reversed the roles of the two groups and the blue-eyed students became the minority group.
At the end of the exercise, the children were so happy they embraced one another and agreed that people shouldn't be judged based on outward appearances. how brilliant is that guys this skill is full of these real life experiments and they're surprising or maybe not so surprising effects let's try another one Alexa open mind experiments here's your mind-blowing fact the Bobo doll experiment during the 1960s much debate arose about how genetics environmental factors or social learning shaped children's development Albert Bandera conducted the Bobo doll experiment in 1961 to prove that human behavior stemmed from social limitation rather than inherited genetic factors he set up three groups one was exposed to adults showing aggressive behavior towards the Bobo doll another was exposed to a passive adult playing with the Bobo doll and the third form to control group. The results showed that children exposed to the aggressive model were more likely to exhibit aggressive behavior towards the doll themselves, while the other groups showed little imitative aggressive behavior. Hmm.
There you go. Most of these are troubling, to be honest. Have a go, guys. Really full of very interesting experience.
Anyone that's done psychology or looked into psychological experiments will know that we are malleable creatures, guys. This is Robin signing off, and we'll speak again tomorrow. Feedback, comments, demos. The dot-to-dot podcast at gmail.com.
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