The study at the U.S.Air Force Academy Preparatory School that demonstrated that students' performance can be affected by teachers' expectations was most likely due to the fact that
A)studies in the field are more unpredictable than those in the laboratory.
B)naturalistic observation pointed out differences not controlled by a laboratory experiment.
C)teachers treated the students differently, thereby creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
D)the two groups were not equal at the start of the experiment.

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The study demonstrated that teachers' expectations affected students' performance, indicating that the teachers treated the students differently based on their expectations, which created a self-fulfilling prophecy. This suggests that the teachers' behavior influenced the students' performance, rather than the students' ability or any other factor that may have affected the experiment's outcome. Choices A and B are not relevant to the situation, and D may be a possible factor, but the study's findings suggest that teacher expectations were the primary cause of the performance differences.

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