Write a 2-3 page (double spaced) paper addressing the following:

• How does the article demonstrate the influence of expectations and labels on social perception?
• Does the article demonstrate confirmation bias?
• Could you apply the Change of Meaning Hypothesis to the article?
• Give examples of how the fundamental attribution error is being committed by people within the article, paying close attention to the actor-observer effect.

There are several examples described in which the pseudopatients’ behavior was caused by the situation they were in and yet was interpreted by the staff as reflecting characteristics of their psychopathology.

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When people are subjected to grow in specific environments, their traits tend to change since they perceive the situation so that it can fit their mode of survival. A seedling tends to increase towards light thus proving the concept of phototropism. The same happens to a man; a man is made to grow where he can survive despite the challenges. …

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