Productivity and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Pygmalion Effect

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1.    What is the Pygmalion Effect?

2.    What is the Galatea Effect?

3.    Who was the researcher who did numerous studies at Harvard University related to the self-fulfilling prophecy?

        a.    What did his studies conclude?

        b.    What was the outcome of the welding students in the worker retraining program?

        c.    What was Sweeney's Miracle? Explain what happened.

4.    What is Rosenthal's Four-Factor Theory of how expectations are transmitted?

Eye of the Beholder

Explain the blue-eyed & brown-eyed experiment in the elementary school classroom.  What was it and what were the results.

What did you learn relevant to your own self-concept?