A Research Assistant Is Conducting an Experiment Designed to Assess

A research assistant is conducting an experiment designed to assess the verbal abilities of boys and girls.In preparing for the experiment,the assistant reads a research study that found higher verbal abilities in girls than in boys.This information about gender unknowingly led the assistant to communicate to the girls in the experiment that they should do better than the boys.What term best describes this phenomenon?

A) Placebo effect
B) Expectancy effect
C) Double-blind effect
D) Between-subjects effect

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