PSYCH253 Lecture 12: Module 12
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Self-fulfilling prophecies: a prediction made that is initially untrue, but becomes true. Intergroup relations because the prediction is made belief that becomes a reality (not related to the self- Do teachers" expectations of how smart students were going to be, determine how. Went to elementary schools and randomly selected students and said that they were smart they actually become? concept) late bloomers and that despite what you might have heard, the students were going to become very good students. At the end of the year, the kids who were identified as late bloomers in the study showed the most improvement. Just telling the teachers that the kids were smart made the kids become smarter in to interact with attractive or not-so-attractive guy. They set it up so that the guy had supposedly filled out a questionnaire recently and the. How the perceiver shapes reality zanna & pack (1975) One of the first controlled laboratory studies looking at self-fulfilling prophecies.
