Police Recruits Whose Instructors Expected Them to Perform Poorly in Their

question 28

Multiple Choice

Police recruits whose instructors expected them to perform poorly in their training class did, in fact, perform worse than those about whom instructors had no advance expectations. The performance of the recruits could be attributed to:

• A) fundamental attribution error.
• B) the halo effect.
• C) the Pygmalion effect.
• D) the Golem effect.

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