When We Are Unaware of the Role That Our Behaviour

question 589

Multiple Choice

When we are unaware of the role that our behaviour played in shaping another person's behaviour and we then interpret the other person's behaviour as evidence that our expectation of the other person was correct all along, a __________________ is said to have occurred.

• A)self-fulfilling prophecy
• B)self-reinforcement process
• C)self-verification process
• D)self-serving bias

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