This is described as the case wherein people have an expectation about what another person is like which influences how they act toward that person, which then causes that person to behave consistently with people’s original expectations, making the expectations come true. Researchers conducted an experiment where random elementary students in a classroom were told that they were “bloomers”, meaning that they would excel academically that year. Towards the end of the school year, the “bloomers” did in fact score higher on tests and receive better grades than the other students that were in the same class- this was due to the teacher’s and students’ expectations and their self-fulfilling prophecies (Robert Rosenhall & Lenore Jacobson, 1968).
Lastly, the final topic of discussion that I chose to elaborate on is the idea of schemas. Schemas are mental structures people use to organize knowledge about the social world around themes or subjects. In 1987, a researcher named Oliver Sacks studied a man named Thompson, a
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