Explain how the workshops set up by Kelman between Israelis and Palestinians foster harmony between the two nations. What do the participants do at these workshops?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Influential persons from both sides come together not to negotiate, but rather to familiarize themselves with the positions and viewpoints of one another and to brainstorm possible solutions that could later be introduced into negotiations. These nonthreatening meetings allow both sides to develop more complex images of the other side and to overcome prejudicial oversimplifications.
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a. they bear little relationship to physical reality. b. they are highly accurate. c. they are fairly accurate, and the errors that they show tend to be rational. d. they are fairly accurate, but the errors that they show tend to be random.
If you were to draw a map of the town or city in which your college is located,
a. you would make the streets intersect at sharp angles, rather than right angles. b. you would make the streets more curved than they really are. c. you would tend to make the streets intersect at 90-degree angles. d. you would show a blending of your college building and the surrounding region, even if the boundary is really quite clear-cut.