A Person Suffering from Anxiety Predicts That He Will Make

question 109

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 invariably outperform those in his afternoon class and,in fact,they do.What do the anxious person and the psychologist share in common?

• A) they are both anxious
• B) they both fell prey to a self-fulfilling prophecy
• C) they both created bias in those who observe them
• D) both are very good at predicting behavior

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