You Want to Foster the Development of Effective Social Cognition

Multiple Choice

You want to foster the development of effective social cognition in a group of children. Which one of the following techniques is least likely to be effective?

A) Create opportunities for the children to discover that people from a particular racial group are all individuals with unique characteristics.
B) Talk to the children about what they are feeling and why; acknowledge that people can have mixed feelings.
C) Encourage the children to speculate about what characters in storybooks might be thinking and feeling.
D) If the children are age 6 or younger, praise them when they describe certain ethnic groups in stereotypical ways, because stereotypes form a foundation for more flexible views later on.