Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Rosenthal and Lawson (1964) found that students’ expectations for their rat’s maze-running ability brought about the expected performance.
2. Research shows that, overall, the effect of the self-fulfilling prophecy on student classroom achievement is large.
3. Students from stereotyped groups are more vulnerable to the self-fulfilling prophecy than are students from majority, non-stereotyped groups.
4. Teachers’ negative expectations are more likely to form a self-fulfilling prophecy than their positive expectations.
1. True
2. False
3. True
4. False
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