Prior to the Start of the Semester, Dr

Multiple Choice

Prior to the start of the semester, Dr. Blankenship was told that three of her students, in particular, had high potential for success. While those three students had, in fact, been only average students in the past, they ended up scoring very high on exams. The performance of the students could be the result of:

A) selective perception.
B) a fundamental attribution error.
C) the Pygmalion effect.
D) the Golem effect.