2008-04-21

Jane Elliot, Riceville, arbitrary description, blue eye (superior) / brown eye (inferior). The children started to act per what others felt about them ... or maybe those people limited their (the 'inferior' people) immediate options? Just do as much as possible.

Robert Rosenthal @ Harvard - pupils, Harvard-Tested Reflective Acquisition, ... so the kids got smarter - self-fulfilling prophecies. Four things that teachers tend to different for whom they have more favorable expectations:
  1. Climate factor - teachers create more favorable climates for the students they factor. Things they say, nonverbal channels too.
  2. Input factor - they teach more material to those who have more favorable.
  3. Response-opportunity factor - the students get more opportunities to respond, they help shape with them the answers that the kids speak out, kind of working together to put the response out
  4. Feedback factor - if more is expected of a kid, the kid is praised more - positive reinforcement - but, interestingly, it's given more differentiated feedback with the wrong answer. You can tell that a teacher does not have high expectations of a student when the teacher does not explain why you were wrong - what's the point if you can't understand?
Alex Gonzalez @ Fresno
The Jigsaw Classroom - Elliot Aronson - was teaching at Austin, Texas. Expert groups. Jigsaw groups.

Robert Cialdin - Arizona in Tempe
"We are obligated to give them the same behavior back."
Principle of Scarcity - things that are rare, scarce, diminishining in availability, more attractive, we want them more. Time deadlines, availability limits on a product.
Principle of Authority - that we are much more willing to follow the lead of a legit authority.
Principle of Commitment - once we make a stand, a position on an issue, we are more likely to say yes to anything re: that position on that commitment. So, a small commitment in the direction that you want them to go.
--- give some pins, 2 weeks later go by and ask for donations
Principle of Liking - say yes to a friend, not to a stranger - Tuperware parties -
Principle of Conensus - much more willing to say yes to a request if we have information that a lot of people around us are saying to that request, give them evidence that this is the fastest selling or fastest growing, etc.


"Quiet Rage" - The Stanford Prison Study

Howard Gold, 1971 - psychological consequences of playing a role in the prison system.
They didn't allow the prisoners to quit??