Experimenter Expectancy

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Experimenter Expectancy

• Self-fulfilling prophecies

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Experimenter Expectancy

• Self-fulfilling prophecies
• Experimenter expectancy effect
• When a researcher expects an event (or finding)
  to occur, it will be more likely to occur
• Not intentionally

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Experimenter Expectancy

• Self-fulfilling prophecies
• Experimenter expectancy effect
• When a researcher expects an event (or finding)
  to occur, it will be more likely to occur
• Not intentionally
• Blind Study
• Experimenters are unaware of whose in control
  group and who is in experimental group

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Experimenter Expectancy

• Self-fulfilling prophecies
• Experimenter expectancy effect
• When a researcher expects an event (or finding)
  to occur, it will be more likely to occur
• Not intentionally
• Blind Study
• Experimenters are unaware of whose in control
  group and who is in experimental group
• Double Blind Study
• Neither subjects nor experimenters know