The exercise talked about what four ways in which reducing ...

[Diane]

The exercise talked about what four ways in which reducing prejudice might be taught. In what way might children learn better to cooperate? (hint: what sort of classroom arrangement?) What is required for contact between racial groups to work?
 
  What is the role of critical thinking?
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Describe how people psychologically evade dealing with in-group responsibility for bad actions. Start off by relating this to the events at Abu Ghraib and/or Guantanamo.
 
  In general, what cognitive technique might be helpful in reducing feelings of responsibility?
  What will be an ideal response?

[Ahernandez18]

Answer to Question 1

Answer:
Reducing prejudice is most likely accomplished through cooperation, contact, critical thinking and empathy. Cooperation might be accomplished through the use of the jigsaw classroom, which stresses reliance on all members of the class to accomplish things. Contact stresses that if the contact is to work, all students must be at the same status level. Critical thinking stresses a careful examination of how stereotypes work.

Answer to Question 2

Answer:
1. People can blame the victims; they deserved what they received.
2. The victims were so heinous they were really not humans, thus undeserving of humane treatment.
3. The actions served such a higher moral purpose, defending the nation, that any action is justified. This can be called moral disengagement.
4. Motivated forgetting helps in reducing guilt. Members of an ingroup in an experiment remembered less about actions of their ingroup toward an outgroup than they remembered about evil actions taken by an outgroup toward their ingroup.

[Diane]

Gracias!

[Jossy]

Excellent