The self-fulfilling prophecy describes the way in which people internalize labels and begin to subconsciously modify their behavior to match the label much like when a teacher tells a student that they are the smartest kid in the class so the kid starts to study more and therefore earns better grades or like when an employee is labeled a slacker and starts having a negative attitude about following corporate rules. True False

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Trevor Stark

15 July, 14:20

The self-fulfilling prophecy describes the way in which people internalize labels and begin to subconsciously modify their behavior to match the label much like when a teacher tells a student that they are the smartest kid in the class so the kid starts to study more and therefore earns better grades or like when an employee is labeled a slacker and starts having a negative attitude about following corporate rules. True False

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Angelo Dunn · Answer 1

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In psychology, the term self-fulfilling prophecy refers to the phenomenon by which someone "predicts" something by having an expectation and then this expectation comes true. It usually happens when a person has some expectations about another person and this other person starts behaving the way the other person expects him to behave and therefore, it "fulfils" the prophecy made by the first person.

In this examples, a teacher tells a student that they are the smartest kid in class so the kid starts behaving the way the teacher expects him to. Also, an employee is labeled as a slacker and he starts behaving this way. Therefore, this example is an example of the self-fulfilling prophecy.