A study at the U.S. Air Force Academy Preparatory School demonstrated that students' performances can be affected by teachers' expectations. These results are best explained by the fact that
a. studies in the field are more unpredictable than those in the laboratory.
b. naturalistic observation pointed out differences not controlled by a laboratory experiment.
c. the teachers subtly
communicated their expectations to the students, which created a self-fulfilling prophecy.
d. the two groups were really not equal in their ability at the start of the experiment.
C
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A method of feedback fading in which learners establish the relative frequency of feedback by whether or not their performance falls within some predetermined criterion (i.e., feedback is given only when the results of a performance fall outside of some range) is called ____________________ feedback
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A. how religious the evaluated patient is. B. whether or not the patient has previously attempted suicide. C. how religious the evaluating clinician is. D. whether or not the clinician previously had a patient attempt suicide.
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a. work hassles. c. financial responsibility hassles. b. security hassles. d. all of these.