Dr Gonzalez Has Just Completed a Correlational Study Where He

question 166

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Dr. Gonzalez has just completed a correlational study where he found a strong association between parental expectations and children's academic achievement. In other words, children who perform well in school tend to have parents who have high
Expectations of them. However, Dr. Gonzalez can't tell which variable causes the other. It may be that high expectations cause children to perform better, or that children's better performance cause their parents to have higher expectations. This particular problem is known as:

• A) the experimenter expectancy effect.
• B) poor external validity.
• C) the third variable problem.
• D) the bidirectional causality problem.

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