When Our Expectations Bring About the Expected Behavior in Another

question 19

True/False

When our expectations bring about the expected behavior in another person, our expectations have become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

---

Definitions:

Mozart Effect

The theory suggesting that listening to Mozart's music may induce a short-term improvement on the performance of certain kinds of mental tasks.

Solomon Four-Group Design

Experimental design in which the experimental and control groups are studied with and without a pretest.

External Validity

The extent to which the results of a study can be generalized or applied to other settings, populations, or situations.

Independent Variables

Variables in an experiment that are manipulated by the researcher to observe their effect on the dependent variables.