What Is the Pygmalion Effect

What is the Pygmalion effect?

A) the placement of students in classrooms with other students of the same intellectual ability
B) teachers who expect students to succeed and excel and are motivated to work with students to ensure that they do
C) creating a false belief that certain occupations are natural based on sex, such as women being nurses and secretaries
D) an overemphasis on educational credentials by employers as a means of narrowing the field of applicants