Question

Please read the section, "Classic Studies in Psychology: Brown Eyes, Blue Eyes" on pages 484 - 483 of your text. and respond to the following questions: 1.) Is there anything about this experiment that you find disturbing? 2.) How do you think adults might react in a similar experiment? 3.) Are there any ethical concerns with what Elliot did in her classroom? 4.) What kinds of changes might have occurred in the personalities and performances of the children if the experiment had continued for more than 2 days with each group? line

Answer 1

1. Yes, the splitting of students into groups and creating discrimination against them was found disturbing.

2. Adults too would react similarly. The only difference is that certain logical evidence facts must be presented to adults to make them believe that they are superior.

3. As per ethics, no child must be emotionally harmed. This was broken here.

4. The inferiority complex within the children of a minority group would develop and so would be the superiority complex of children in the major group creating room for more chaos.