Maria tried to learn to swim at a young age but gave up before succeeding. She carried the belief that she could not learn to swim into adulthood and labeled herself a nonswimmer. This is an example of

Maria's belief of labelling herself as a non-swimmer is described as a self-fulfilling prophecy by which it is defined as a prediction that can either be directly or indirectly that causes a certain thing to become true because of the prophecy that one has made to itself by which it associates the belief and behavior of the person.