Halo effects occur when a rater's positive or negative feelings towards a person influence their ratings of unrelated behaviors or characteristics. In this case, the rater is using a child's positive or negative characteristic to influence their rating, which is not pertinent to the rated item.

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Halo Effects Are

Question 22

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Halo effects are:

A) The tendency of some raters to have an overly generous or overly critical response set when rating all behaviors.
B) Rating a child in a positive or negative manner simply because they possess some other positive or negative characteristic not pertinent to the rated item.
C) The proclivity of raters to select midpoint ratings and to avoid endpoints of the scale such as never and always.
D) None of the above

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