A self-fulfilling prophecy is

a. an accurate prediction about another’s behavior, based on background knowledge.
b. a prediction about one’s own behavior, based on past experience.
c. a prediction that affects the outcome of one’s own or another’s behavior.
d. a mistaken prediction which fails to occur.
e. none of the above.


Answer: c

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