Question

Evadne, a teacher at an elementary school is completing a rating scale for one her students. The teacher has often complained about the student to the school counselor, leaving a bad impression about the student on the school counselor. Which of the following rating scale errors is most likely to occur?(a) Severity
(b) Negative halo
(c) Social desirability
(d) Response Deviance

Answer 1

Answer:

b. Negative halo

Explanation:

Halo effect -

Halo effect is a type of cognitive bias .  

It refers to as the effect about any person , product , company or brand under the influence of some other person's response , is referred to as the halo effect .

Halo effect is exactly reverse of the horn effect .

Halo effect can be positive as well as negative .

Where , positive halo effect reflects the good comments and the negative halo effect reflects the bad comments .

Hence , from the given scenario of the question ,

The correct answer is b. Negative halo effect .

Answer 2

Answer:

The correct answer is letter "B": Negative halo.

Explanation:

American psychologist Edwin Thorndike (1874-1949) coined the term "Halo Effect" to refer to the biased perception individuals create by generalizing one positive aspect of another individual they do not know. That single feature of that person makes the individual believes the recently met person has positive features in all other areas of his or her personality.

When the individual perceives a negative characteristic on another person and qualifies that person as negative, then the inverse effect of the halo is used which is called "Horns effect" or "Negative halo".

Thus, the counselor at the elementary school in the case is being subject to the horn's effect.