A Class Divided

In the video "A Class Divided", what was Jane Elliot trying to test?

• Whether racism could be conditioned

• Whether Martin Luther King was unjustly killed

• The current socioeconomic status of the kids in her class

• How children behave under pressure

What was the independent variable in Elliot's study?

• Student behavior

• Eye color

• Student performance on reading

• Student interaction with the teacher

What did Elliot use to characterize "superior" and "inferior" within the student population?

• Parent employment

• Skin color

• Hair color

• Eye color

What is a self fulfilling prophecy?

• When you do something for yourself. Thereby fulfilling what you needed done

• Socio-psychological phenomenon of someone "predicting" or expecting something, and this “prediction” or expectation comes true simply because one believes it will, and their resulting behaviors align to fulfill those beliefs. This suggests peoples' beliefs influence their actions.

• When you do too much for other people and it causes mental stress to yourself.

What is the Scientific Method?

• When a procedure has a clear bias and has to be thrown out

• System of gathering data so that bias and error in measurement are reduced

• When a hypothesis is not proven

• When a hypothesis is proven

Which of the following would be accurate for forming a hypothesis?

• Reporting results on a case study

• Using random sampling to develop a procedure

• Telling whether your experiment went well or not

• tentative explanation of a phenomenon based on observations

Which response would be the correct definition of reporting your results?

• Coming up with results and telling those who participated what they scored

• Letting others know what you find

• allowing participants to determine what the results should be

Which is most accurate for "naturalistic observation"?

• Creating fake environments that look very similar to natural ones

• Observing whether or not people act natural during an experiment

• Watching animals or humans behave in their normal environment

• Only applies to watching animals who are out in the wild

Which best applies to "laboratory observation"?

• Watching animals or humans behave in a laboratory setting

• Using a lab to eliminate error

• Presenting results in a lab setting

• Creating experiments that must use lab equipment

Which best describes a "case study"?

• Study of multiple people in great detail

• Study of basic observations of a group of people

• Study of one individual in great detail

• When one person refuses to participate in the study