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Teachers' Expectations for Student Performance Sometimes Affect the Grades They

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Teachers' expectations for student performance sometimes affect the grades they give. Considering the textbook's discussion of when expectations are likely to have their greatest effects, choose the situation in which teacher expectations are most likely to influence grades.


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Top-down Processing

An approach to perception that involves higher-level cognitive processes controlling lower-level systems, often utilizing pre-existing knowledge to interpret incoming information.

Sensory Adaptation

The procedure through which sense organs gradually become less responsive to persistent stimuli, permitting living beings to focus on variations within their environment.

Touch

The act or sense of coming into physical contact with something else, providing sensory feedback and emotional communication.

Frequency Theory

A theory suggesting that the perception of pitch corresponds to the rate, or frequency, at which the entire basilar membrane vibrates.

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