Recent Research Suggests That Participants Who Are Cognitively Distracted Are

Multiple Choice

Recent research suggests that participants who are cognitively distracted are more likely to fall prey to the self-fulfilling prophecy than are participants who are not distracted. This suggests that self-fulfilling prophecies are

A) the result of a deliberate attempt to confirm our schemas.
B) more likely to occur when we are tired or preoccupied with other things.
C) an inevitable facet of social-cognitive processes.
D) more likely to occur when people have faulty memories.