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WorksheetsRosenthal and Jacobson (1966) Presentation
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Rosenthal and Jacobson hypothesised that based on prior information regarding students, teachers may...
Subconsciously or consciously behave in ways that subtly encourage the performance of students held to lower expectations.
Subconsciously or consciously behave in ways that subtly encourage the performance of students held to higher expectations.
not change in behaviour at all.
Subconsciously or consciously behave in ways that subtly discourage the performance of students held to higher expectations.
The pygmalion effect is a type of...?
Reinforcement
Classical Conditioning
Operant Conditioning
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Which of these statements are TRUE. Results showed...?
First and second grade students were most affected by the pygmalion effect.
Fifth and Sixth grade students were not influenced by the Pygmalion effect.
All student year levels displayed the pygmalion effect to some extent.
All of the above.
The self-fulfilling prophecy in scientific research first came about as a result of...?
Lab rats trained to solve math equations.
Little Albert.
A horse named "Clever Hans".
Pavlov's Dogs.
Younger students may be more influenced by self-fulfilling prophecies due to...
being more impressionable
being more transformable
teachers having less established opinions of them
all of the above
Was ethical deception used in Rosenthal and Jacobson's (1966) study?
True
False
Who was the control group in Rosenthal and Jacobson's (1966) study?
The teachers
All of the students
The names of the students who were given to teachers
The names of the students who weren't given to the teacher
The first experiment that explored the self-fulfilling prophecy in psychology was conducted in what year?
1911
1901
1912
1921
Rubovits and Maehr (1973) studied the Pygmalion effect in terms of...
IQ
Gender
Age
Race
Which of the following is not a key finding of Rosenthal and Jacobson's (1966) study?
The expectancy effect can occur in real life situations.
students in higher grades were impacted.
students in lower grades were impacted.
Students in higher grades were not impacted.
Which year level of students had no change in terms of IQ score for the original study?
Year 1
Year 3
Year 5
Year 6
What is the correct order in showing how the pygmalion effect occurs?
Expectations, beliefs, behaviour, results.
Beliefs, behaviour, expectations, results.
Behaviour, results, expectations, beliefs.
Beliefs, expectations, behaviour, results.
