A Person Suffering from Anxiety Predicts That He Will Make

question 67

Multiple Choice

A person suffering from anxiety predicts that he will make a fool of himself at a social gathering and, in fact, he does. A psychologist predicts that students in his morning class will outperform those in his afternoon class and, in fact, they do. What do the anxious person and the psychologist have in common? They both

• A)engaged in pseudoscience.
• B)created a self-fulfilling prophecy.
• C)engaged in the placebo effect.
• D)created a single blind.