domingo, 29 de agosto de 2010

THE PYGMALION EFFECT

The pygmalion effect is a phenomenon that acts in the workplace, the school, social and familiar leves in an individual. making it more productive or less productive as well. Acting in the mind of an individual making it believe the facility to reach any goal.
  • A person reaches the goal that was previously implanted because of his believes and the idea of being able to reach it, totally convinced of achieved it.
  • "When teachers expect students to do well and show intellectual growth, they do; when teachers do not have such expectations, performance and growth are not so encouraged and may in fact be discouraged in a variety of ways." (Rosenthal y Jacobson).

Possitive Effect: It has a possitive effect if the person increases its self - confidence and has as results good conclutions and solutions.

Negative Effect: It has a negative effect if the person decreases its Self- confidence and develop bad results and a weak solution.

pic taken from:(http://e.elcomercio.pe/66/ima/0/0/1/7/8/178571.jpg)

4 comentarios:

  1. Work as a team, believed your the best, and self-fulfill by practicing and improve your performance, were they key factors that rule the philosophy of Spain soccer team that led them to success.
    Spain, soccer world cup champions 2010
    Impossible is nothing(adidas Slogan), team Sponsor by adidas.
    This Slogan relates directly with the pygmalion self-fulfilling prophecy. Always believe!

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  2. The basics of the pygmalion effect are well explained and the picture goes with the subject.
    sometimes you dont need a lot of words to explain an idea, and this post is an example for it.

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  3. You could understand the whole point of the title by just the picture. I like that explanation of the self-fulfilling prophecy with a little touch of luck.

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  4. Isaac, please remember to use references not just for images but for theory. Good Job...You are missing some tasks.

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