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Discuss the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy as It Relates to Minority Students

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Discuss the self-fulfilling prophecy as it relates to minority students' performance in school.


Definitions:

Unconscious Thoughts

Unconscious thoughts are mental processes that occur without conscious awareness, influencing behavior, decisions, and feelings.

Positive Reinforcement

A behavioral training technique that involves rewarding a behavior to increase the likelihood of it occurring again.

Repression

A psychological defense mechanism where unacceptable thoughts, memories, or feelings are unconsciously blocked from conscious awareness.

Retrograde Amnesia

A form of amnesia where an individual loses pre-existing memories to some extent, losing access to information that occurred before a specific event or time.

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