I have seen this video many times and it is always so interesting to watch. I love this experiment. It is interesting to see how quickly the children are to be mean to the others who are being discriminated against.
The difference that positive and negative reinforcement makes is huge. And to think, that every aspect of our culture and society perpetuates those reinforcements. It makes me sad. I taught for more than ten years, and the hardest job every year was unteaching the negative reinforcements taught by people before me. And I knew that after they left my class they sometimes went right back into the same negativity that I had finally gotten eliminated.
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The difference that positive and negative reinforcement makes is huge. And to think, that every aspect of our culture and society perpetuates those reinforcements. It makes me sad. I taught for more than ten years, and the hardest job every year was unteaching the negative reinforcements taught by people before me. And I knew that after they left my class they sometimes went right back into the same negativity that I had finally gotten eliminated.