Imagine That You Have Been Hired to Assist in an Experiment

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you have been hired to assist in an experiment investigating the verbal abilities of boys and girls. In preparing for the experiment, you read a research study that found higher verbal abilities in girls than boys. If this information about gender leads you somehow to communicate to the girls in the experiment that they should do better than the boys, we say that the ________ effect is operating.

A) placebo
B) expectancy
C) double-blind
D) between-subjects