Many teachers underestimate the abilities of ethnic minority children in their classes, which may hurt the students' chances for success due to the occurrence of a(n)

a. Barnum effect.
b. anthropomorphic error.
c. placebo effect.
d. self-fulfilling prophecy.


D

Psychology

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