In the studies of experimenter bias (1985,2006)conducted by Robert Rosenthal,the experimenters asked individuals to judge the success of people in various photographs.Although the same photos were shown to all the participants and the same instructions given,experimenters who expected their participants to see the photographed people as successful obtained higher ratings than did those who expected their participants to see the people as failures.This demonstrates the phenomenon of
A)self-fulfilling prophecies.
B)the illusion of control.
C)illusory correlations.
D)the fundamental attribution error.

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This scenario demonstrates the phenomenon of self-fulfilling prophecies because the experimenter's expectations influenced the participants' judgments, leading to higher ratings for those individuals perceived as successful. This, in turn, may have affected the photographed individuals' actual success in the future.

In the Studies of Experimenter Bias (1985,2006)conducted by Robert Rosenthal,the