How did the Pygmalion effect come into play in the study conducted by Lenore and Jacobson?
What will be an ideal response?
At the end of the school year, the children who had been at random designated "rapid bloomers" in the study showed significantly greater improvement in the class than other students. This outcome is called the Pygmalion effect.
Psychology
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a. an accurate assessment of unconscious conflicts. b. less reliable. c. a better predictor of certain behaviors. d. more difficult to interpret.
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If a certain nominal scale, applied to a single group of subjects, showed
observed frequencies of 30, 25 and 20, the frequencies expected on the basis of chance would be a. 30, 25 and 20 b. 30, 30 and 25 c. 25, 30 and 25 d. 25, 25 and 25
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