美国著名心理学家罗森塔尔曾在纽约的一所中学里,从各班中随意挑选出十多位学生的名单,私下称赞一番他们各自的优点:或听课专心致志,或作业一丝不茍,或勤学好问,或回答问题积极等,并宣称他们都是最有前途的学生,同时把这些学生名单交给负责任的老师。结果这些私下受称赞的学生,在老师的关怀和鼓励下,刻苦好学,锐意进取,孜孜不倦。四个月后,奇迹出现了:在期末考试中,这些随意抽出来的受赞扬的学生,包括以前成绩中下等的学生,学习成绩全部优秀!这就是教育心理学上著名的“罗森塔尔效应”。 Rosenthal, a famous psychologist in the United States, once randomly selected a list of more than a dozen students from a class in a high school in New York and praised privately for his or her own merits: either earnestly paying attention to class or meticulous in his assignments, Or work hard to ask questions, or answer positive questions, and claim that they are the most promising students, at the same time the list of these students to a responsible teacher. The results of these privately praised students, with the care and encouragement of the teacher, studious, determined to make progress, tireless efforts. Four months later, a miracle happened: in the final exams, these free-laden and acclaimed students, including former students with outstanding grades, were all in excellent academic performance - a well-known educational psychology, “Rosen Tal effect ”.