Parents warn a new babysitter that their son, Dennis, is very aggressive and mischievous. As a result of this initial expectation, the babysitter starts calling the child "Dennis the Menace" and he behaves in ways that elicit aggressive and mischievous behaviors from Dennis. This example best demonstrates the phenomenon called Group of answer choicesfundamental attribution error. self-serving bias. social conditioning. self-fulfilling prophecy.

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David Arnold

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6 August, 20:46

Parents warn a new babysitter that their son, Dennis, is very aggressive and mischievous. As a result of this initial expectation, the babysitter starts calling the child "Dennis the Menace" and he behaves in ways that elicit aggressive and mischievous behaviors from Dennis. This example best demonstrates the phenomenon called Group of answer choicesfundamental attribution error. self-serving bias. social conditioning. self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Isiah Sweeney · Answer 1

self-fulfilling prophecy.

Explanation:

Self-fulfilling prophecy: In psychology, the term "self-fulfilling prophecy" is defined as one of the "socio-psychological phenomena" that tends to describes the process in which an individual is devoted to expect or predict about something related to a specific event or thing and therefore that expectation or prediction comes true in future time just because he or she believed to happen and hence this behavior tends to complete of fulfilling those beliefs.

In the question above, the given statement signifies the self-fulfilling prophecy.