Hearing rumors about her new roommate, Jamilla expects this roommate to be unfriendly and conceited. Because of this expectation Jamilla is not very warm or open. Several weeks later Jamilla finds that her roommate is unfriendly. This may be an example of

A. romanticism

B. Active listening

C. Self-fulfilling prophecy

D. positive illusions

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Macey Macdonald

24 May, 06:55

Hearing rumors about her new roommate, Jamilla expects this roommate to be unfriendly and conceited. Because of this expectation Jamilla is not very warm or open. Several weeks later Jamilla finds that her roommate is unfriendly. This may be an example of

A. romanticism

B. Active listening

C. Self-fulfilling prophecy

D. positive illusions

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Elsie Sloan · Answer 1

Self-fulfilling prophecy

Explanation:

Self-fulfilling prophecy -

It is the phenomena, where the person predicts or forecasts some prior thoughts about a certain person, just because of some other person's belief, is referred to as self - fulfilling prophecy.

And due to any positive or negative prior thought about a certain person, makes the person to react and talk in the similar manner.

Hence, from the given scenario of the question, the example shown is about Self-fulfilling prophecy.