Portfolio 5

With a partner, please answer the following. You may use internet resources to help you:

1.      Define:

a.       Stereotyping: something confirming to a fixed or general pattern.

b.      Prejudice: it is often used to refer to preconceived usually unfavorable judgment toward people or a person.

c.       Bias: a personal and sometimes unreasonable judgment.

d.      Discrimination: is the prejudicial or distinguishing treatment of an individual based on his or her membership like; skin color; race; religion.

2.      Give an example of each.

Stereotypes: All black people eat killer or men handle things better then woman or

Prejudice: like saying the all Syrian are thieves before even meeting them.

Bias: separating people like White people and black people or because of region

Discrimination: the same as Bias like saying those people are black don’t talk to them

Watch  Class Divided

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With partners, answer the following:

1.      Where, when and with whom did this experiment take place?

    United stats, 1960s , third graders.

2.      Describe the experiment.

   The third graders were dividing into two groups based on their eye color, 1 group had blue eyes and the other had brown eyes.  the experiment was held for two days, first day the blue eyes had the advantage over the brown eyes and the had to wear a collar to show that they are brown eyes so do not get play, talk with them basically they were treated as outcasts. the second day the roles changed the brown eyes had the advantage over the blue eyes. at the end of the experiment the collars were removed and all the students were happy that they don't need to hate their friends and realized that discrimination is inhuman.       

3.      What were the results?

 The results were excellent  all the participants embraced the concept " Discrimination is not good"

 4.      How successful do you believe it was?

 I believe it was a major success to make all the students hate discrimination in 2 days is good.