How do expectations affect outcomes? This week we’re going to listen to an incredible story. It’s a long one, so break it up into pieces – listen to a little every day and answer the questions. We’re going to work on this for the week of January 25th – 29th so you have plenty of time to listen to it. The transcript is here so you can check your answers.
(0:00) Summarize the rat experiment. What did the researcher, Bob Rosenthal, find?
(3:20) How do they explain the findings? How does the rat experiment relate to people?
(6:18) What is the central question for the program? What is your opinion?
(7:50) What is unique about Daniel?
(8:10) What does he do to “see”?
(11:05) Why does Daniel think he can ride a bicycle and most blind people can’t?
(13:49) What did Daniel’s mother have to decide? What did the police, school, and neighbors think? How did she react?
(17:30) What was the reason Paulette decided to raise Daniel this way?
(19:16) By the time he was in fifth grade, what did Daniel do?
(19:58) Who was Adam, and what was Daniel’s reaction to meeting him?
(20:46) Why was Adam so incapable?
(23:18) What was the revolutionary idea in Scott’s book? How did he decide that?
(25:09) What was the most important sentence in the guy’s story? How was that idea reinforced?
(28:02) What does the National Federation for the Blind believe?
(30:10) How are blind children treated today? What did Daniel realize?
(0:00) Summarize the rat experiment. What did the researcher, Bob Rosenthal, find?
(3:20) How do they explain the findings? How does the rat experiment relate to people?
(6:18) What is the central question for the program? What is your opinion?
(7:50) What is unique about Daniel?
(8:10) What does he do to “see”?
(11:05) Why does Daniel think he can ride a bicycle and most blind people can’t?
(13:49) What did Daniel’s mother have to decide? What did the police, school, and neighbors think? How did she react?
(17:30) What was the reason Paulette decided to raise Daniel this way?
(19:16) By the time he was in fifth grade, what did Daniel do?
(19:58) Who was Adam, and what was Daniel’s reaction to meeting him?
(20:46) Why was Adam so incapable?
(23:18) What was the revolutionary idea in Scott’s book? How did he decide that?
(25:09) What was the most important sentence in the guy’s story? How was that idea reinforced?
(28:02) What does the National Federation for the Blind believe?
(30:10) How are blind children treated today? What did Daniel realize?
Good job – you’ve made it this far! We’ll do part 2 next week!
