Self Fulfilling Prophecy Research Paper
Self-fulfilling prophecy is defined in the textbook as “when a person’s expectations of an event, and his or her subsequent behavior is based on those expectations, make an outcome more likely to occur than would otherwise been true” (Watzlawick, 2005). A recent event that I happened to impose this is when I took my car to get it checked it, the mechanic told me that a part that controls the steering wheel was badly damaged and that if I kept driving the car in that condition, my steering wheel won’t work and it could cause a major accident. Well I thought to myself “I won’t have any problems, I’ll get it fixed sooner or later”, and while I was driving in the morning for school, I started to think about what the mechanic told me, and I suddenly became nervous and worried, then out of nowhere the steering wheel stopped working but luckily, I managed to stop my car on the
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Other times it felt as if I dodged a bullet because my day wouldn’t go out the way I thought it would, since I’m very pessimistic. It all depends on how my behavior a certain day is, or how I wake up feeling on the start of a new day. If I wake up feeling sick or upset, then my behavior will be based on those expectations and it would probably turn at bad without me even knowing my prediction became true. I just try to live each day carefully without trying to judge how it’ll be.
The more I answer these questions It definitely changes the way I’ll talk to myself in the future. It gives me a different view on how I thought things back in the past, but now I know that I need to be more optimistic and approach situations carefully than just immediately thinking it’ll end the way I think. After reading about what Self- fulling prophecy is, I will slowly start to change on how i'll speak to myself from now on. Won't be easy, but its never to late to change some things in my
Other times it felt as if I dodged a bullet because my day wouldn’t go out the way I thought it would, since I’m very pessimistic. It all depends on how my behavior a certain day is, or how I wake up feeling on the start of a new day. If I wake up feeling sick or upset, then my behavior will be based on those expectations and it would probably turn at bad without me even knowing my prediction became true. I just try to live each day carefully without trying to judge how it’ll be.
The more I answer these questions It definitely changes the way I’ll talk to myself in the future. It gives me a different view on how I thought things back in the past, but now I know that I need to be more optimistic and approach situations carefully than just immediately thinking it’ll end the way I think. After reading about what Self- fulling prophecy is, I will slowly start to change on how i'll speak to myself from now on. Won't be easy, but its never to late to change some things in my