What sparked Elliott's lesson in class?
Martin Luther King Jr's Death
What was Elliott's goal?
To teach her students about racial issues
What chemical did she say that blue-eyed people lacked?
Melanin
How did the attitudes of the discriminated students change?
They seemed depressed and did not preform as well.
When the groups were switched, how did the children react?
The students who had just been discriminated against were less harsh on the other students
How did parents react to the original experiment?
They were unhappy, and did not agree with the lesson
What was the nickname for the IQ Test given?
Harvard Test of Inflected Acquisition
What group of people was Rosenthal's study geared towards?
1st to 6th grade students
What did Rosenthal prove with the Pygmalion Effect?
The students performed better because their teacher expected them to do better.
How does Elliott and Rosenthal's experiment correlate?
Both demonstrate that if you treat a selected group of people and treat them better, they will perform better.
