The answer to this question is <span>The students' expectations about the rats' performance influenced their observations and behaviors
When the students heard a term/label imposed to a subject/object, we will initially expect that subject/object act according to their labels.
Another example would be, when someone tell you that a bread is poisonous, you will automatically expect whoever eat that bread to start choking or vomiting blood.</span>
a rock or a pen or a book or a table
<span>This is because the South had paid off about 83% of their
debt and saw the plan as a way of relieving the North of its debt payments as they
were trailing behind while the South had paid most of its debts. They did not want to pay more than they have
to.</span>