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Jacobson report and discuss the Pygmalion Effect in great their study, they showed that if teachers were led to expect improved performance from som e children, then the children did indeed show that some cases such improvement was about twice that shown by other children in the same class. The purpose of the experiment was to support the hypothesis (假設 ) that reality can be influenced by the expectations of influence can be beneficial as well as detrimental depending on which label (稱謂 ) an in dividual is observer expectancy effect, which involves an experimenter’ s unconsciously biased expectations , is tested in real life suggested that biased expectancies can essentially affect reality and create self fulfilling predictions as a result. In this experiment, Rosenthal predicted that, when given the information that certain students are brighter than others, elementary school teachers may unconsciously behave in ways that encourage the students’ previous research that motivated this study was done in 1911 by psychologists regarding the case of Clever Hans, a horse that gained notoriety because it was supposed to be able to read, spell and solve math problems by using its hoof to answer skeptics suggested that questioners and observers were unintentionally signaling Clever Hans. Although not of central importance here, of huge importance in educational research in general is the issue of teacher O’ Shea has said that in all studies where one of the variables was the teacher, the effect of different teachers was always bigger than the effect of different treatments (usually the actual subject to be studied) . Basically ,teachers_have_a_huge_effect, but_it’ s_poorly_understood. 6. What does the passage mainly talk about? A. The Pygmalion Effect will be widely used in teaching. B. Teachers should give students more encouragement. C. Students should try to be more confident. D. The Pygmalion Effect has a great impact on a student’ s progress. 7. The underlined word “ detrimental” in Paragraph 2 means “ ________” . A. risky B. harmful C. essential D. frightening 8. What did Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson’ s experiment conclude? A. When students w