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What You Expect Is What You Get

What You Expect Is What You Get. Allison Peipert. Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?. Clever Hans the Horse Experimenter Expectancy Effect – The experimenter’s results are altered by expectations. 1963 rat study– students assigned “smart” rats reported faster maze times than “dull” rats

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What You Expect Is What You Get

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  1. What You Expect Is What You Get Allison Peipert

  2. Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? • Clever Hans the Horse • Experimenter Expectancy Effect– The experimenter’s results are altered by expectations. • 1963 rat study– students assigned “smart” rats reported faster maze times than “dull” rats • These results threaten all previous studies • Rosenthal wondered how this effected various environments, such as schools.

  3. Theoretical Propositions • Labeled as Pygmalion Effect • Teachers, when given IQ scores of students, will treat students differently based on their scores • This will affect the students’ performances • Used Oak School– lower middle-class in large town

  4. Method • Kids grades 1-6 given IQ test • Called a “Harvard Test”– predictor for academic “bloom and growth” • 3 classes/grade level • Teachers were given the list of those who scored in the top 20% on the Harvard Test • This list was actually assigned at random • At the end of the year the children were given the same IQ test

  5. Results • The children with the expectation of greater intellectual ability had greater improvement on the test • The evidence of the Pygmalion effect decreased as age increased • -More easily influenced -Already have known standards -Difference between teachers for younger and older grades

  6. Significance • Effects of teachers’ expectations • Accuracy of IQ tests • Study in 1974: Teachers told random students were “bright” • -Smiled more • -Eye contact • -Favorable reactions • -Students enjoy school more • What if IQ tests are inaccurate? If all teachers bias based on these tests? • Similar results were shown based on race, gender, and other categories instead of IQ

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