Concepts Applied

Question 1

Internalization

Answer 1

As the children are told they are inferior, they internalized they are, not resisting the mistreatment.

Question 2

Authority

Answer 2

The teacher, or authority figure, was the one directing the children and the experiment and telling them how to think

Question 3

Stereotype

Answer 3

We see it when the teacher tells the kids that people with blue eyes tend to do things that can be viewed as bad, and vice versa with the kids with brown eyes, saying they are less intelligent, greedy, etc.

Question 4

Hierarchy

Answer 4

We see this when during the experiment certain kids with the eye color that was considered to be “on top” for the day were given certain privileges

Question 5

Differential treatment

Answer 5

This is seen when the whole experiment is based on eye color, and the putting down of either students that have blue eyes, or brown eyes which is an outward appearance that they can’t change, and it is deliberately done this way

Question 6

Arbitrariness of difference

Answer 6

The difference chose by the teacher was eye color which does not play any role into determining capabilities of the kids and never mattered before this

Question 7

Otherization

Answer 7

The kids that were considered superior band together and otherized the inferior kids, even abandon their own friends, referring to them as “brown eyes” or “blue eyes”

Question 8

Fallacy

Answer 8

We see this when she tells the children how people with either brown or blue eyes are based on little or poor information or examples and the children believe it

Question 9

Generalization

Answer 9

A generalization was made as all the kids of either blue or brown eyes were claimed to be superior or inferior.

Question 10

False genralization

Answer 10

The generalization of the kids’ capabilities based on their eye color was wrong

Question 11

Logic

Answer 11

Logic was not used when grouping the children as eye colors does not matter therefore making it bad logic