The "Rosenthal effect" occurs when
a. race of the tester produces a bias.
b. the administrators' expectations influence the respondents' scores.
c. test-takers do poorly because they are fatigued.
d. the gender of the test administrator is different than that of the examinee.
b
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" She is wondering if her daughter has an attention problem. What would you tell her? a. Many children this age engage in media multitasking. b. Your niece probably does have some attention problems. This behavior is quite unusual. c. Only children with attention problems engage in media multitasking. d. Engaging in too much media multitasking will lead to dementia.
Differences between age groups resulting from environmental events, rather than developmental processes, are referred to as
a. response biases. c. representative samplings. b. cohort effects. d. artificial settings.