A Teacher Asks the School Psychologist to Observe Her Class

question 116

Multiple Choice

A teacher asks the school psychologist to observe her class through the two-way mirror and determine why the class disruptions are occurring. Just as the psychologist is walking into the room off to the side of the classroom to observe, the teacher assistant tells the psychologist, "Pay close attention to Claire and Roberto over there by the maps. I think they are the real troublemakers in the class." After this encounter, the school psychologist will have to struggle with

• A)the observer effect.
• B)observer bias.
• C)a placebo effect.
• D)an anthropomorphic error.

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Definitions:

Oedipus

A character in Greek mythology whose life events inspired the psychoanalytic theory of the Oedipus complex, involving a child's unconscious desire for their opposite-sex parent and jealousy toward the same-sex parent.

Psychoanalytic Theory

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