Mr. Maxwell, an English teacher, thinks all students who play sports are lazy in class. This week, one of the football players d
idn't do his assignment, and Mr. Maxwell said, "See? He is lazy." This is an example of: A. Social cognition
B. self-fulfilling prophecy
C. A schema
D. Self-esteem
The appropriate response is self-fulfilling prophecy. A self-fulfilling prophecy is a forecast that straightforwardly or in a roundabout way makes itself turn out to be valid, by the very terms of the prediction itself, because of positive criticism amongst conviction and conduct.
