The Influence Of The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

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The self-fulfilling prophecy can be described as a positive or negative expectation where an event or situation might occur that can affect a person’s behavior and causes the expectation to be accomplished. Also it can be viewed as “a belief that comes true because we are acting as if it is already true” (Kaufman, 2012). Back in Puerto Rico when I was a kid, my seventh grade English teacher wanted to believe that the students from one of her many classrooms, specifically the classroom with all the kids who were either troublemakers, school system failures or basically didn’t care about coming to school, could possibly compete and win during the annual Spelling Bee contest for the school district and I happened to be one of them. Our teacher

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