Frida is a substitute teacher who is taking over for Susan. Susan's two classes are equally good, but Susan decides to tell Frida that the afternoon class is smarter. Based on the research of Rosenthal and Jacobson, we could expect

a. the afternoon class to perform better.
b. Frida to try to treat the two classes the same.
c. to defend the morning class by saying they are smarter.
d. Frida to figure out that Susan was lying.
e. the morning class to get better treatment from Frida.

a. the afternoon class to perform better.

Psychology

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