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        Rosenthal and Jacobson (1966) sought to test the experimenter expectancy effect by examining how much of an outcome teachers' expectancies could have on a group of children. Earlier investigations in this area were also conducted by Rosenthal (1963). He worked with children in a research lab, giving each one a rat and telling them it was either bred for intelligence or for dullness. The children were put in charge of teaching the rats how to learn mazes. …

…attention to students may have on them. I would like to become a high school or college professor. Even though Rosenthal and Jacobson's experiment revealed that the older the children, the less they were affected by the teacher's expectancies, I would like to see the same experiment performed on high school children. This would reinforce Rosenthal and Jacobson's findings and take some pressure away from how teachers feel they have to react to older students.