A New Babysitter Is Warned by a Child's Parents That

Multiple Choice

A new babysitter is warned by a child's parents that their son is very aggressive and loud. As a result of this initial expectation, the babysitter behaves in such a way that these very behaviours are evoked from the child, thus confirming what the sitter was initially told. This example best demonstrates the phenomenon called

A) the self-fulfilling prophecy
B) social facilitation
C) the fundamental attribution error
D) social loafing