Defining Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

The social-psychological principle that is relevant to this scene is self-fulfilling prophecies. The definition of self-fulfilling prophecy is “the observation that expectations about the future tend to come true due to the fact that our expectations affect what we think, say, and do and those actions affect the outcome of events and situations”. Robert Merton describes self-fulfilling prophecies as the situation where we end up labeling others, and through this we actually influence their action, and they eventually become

Mark's self fulfilling prophecy:- Mark's expectation about himself was to achieve the highest point of his career in his company, corporation presidency. He made this expectation at his own based upon his previous career success;

Geoffrey Chaucer, the author who composed The Canterbury Tales such as The Miller’s Tale, The Wife of Bath’s Tale and Prologue, and the Nun’s Priest’s Tale. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales displays remarkable diversity in the genre, source materials, and themes such as sex, money, and centuries-old tradition of misogynist writing. The characters presented in the Canterbury Tales each depicts a stereotype of the kind of person Chaucer would be familiar with in the 14th century England. The Wife of Bath for example, had five husbands and three out of her five husbands, she married were “fair, old, rich, and submissive” while her other two husbands were atrocious (Chaucer 287). While she married her four husbands because they had money and were submissive, she married her fifth husband Jankyn, who was twenty years old and she was forty, married him for love, not for money (Chaucer 294,295). As or more important, Chaucer engages the device of narrative framework, the story revolves around individuals on both religion and story-telling. Of these continuous themes, Chaucer uses the connection between man and wife, saying that it is the most eminent topic, but additional themes such as social class, religion, unite groups of characters function through these tales.

A subpart of this particular criterion is “markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self”.(2) Susanna self image is not only unstable, but also largely negative. She alternates from moments of self acceptance and goal orientation to times of a general depression and a pervading sense of confusion. When asked by her high school guidance councilor what she wishes to do with her life, Susanna replies with a high degree of certainty that she wishes to be a writer and not a housewife like her mother, yet at the same time she has no interest in college and has no actual plan for achieving her goal.

People whose self-concept high incongruence makes their experience contradict with their self-perception. Relatively incongruent self-concept leads to recurrent anxiety. There for from this anxiety they display defensive behaviour in order to relate their experience with their self-concept so that it will seem quite accurate, i.e. they protect their self-concept by displaying defensive behaviour of ignoring, denying and twisting reality (Wieten, 2014).

Humanistic psychologists would say that she is struggling in Maslow’s level of Esteem in the Hierarchy of Needs. The reason that she is unable to trust her own decisions and always looks towards others is because her self-esteem isn’t high. Also, you can even argue she is still even on Love/Belongings, because she never really spends time with her family, and the reason could be because she feels as if she doesn’t fit in. So if she is on this level, she certainly can’t move up towards Esteem, because in this approach, you must complete the basic levels before you can move

The self-fulfilling prophecy is a concept in psychology that has an impact on the way we behave towards others and expect them to behave towards us. If we believe ourselves to be worthwhile, pleasant and likeable then we

Another example of a case study which highlights a group’s suffering of discrimination historically that sets justifiable ramifications for seeking self-determinism include Estonia. Estonia was controlled and ruled over by numerous occupiers: Danes, Swedes, Poles, Germans, Russian Tsars, Soviet Union, but generally maintained their cultures together even though 5000 years of Estonian nationalism almost cease to exist during the Darkest Period of Estonia that began in 1939. The Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact allowed Soviet invasion and occupation which lasted for a year and a half. Later, the German Nazis entered Estonia and occupied the territory until 1945, where once again, the Soviet Union “liberated” the area, but immediately assumed control

I have had an enduring situation that I have been fighting to “switch” my self-fulfilling prophecy. My circumstance has been this: for years I have been telling myself I have a bad memory. I have declared that to be true of myself. Because of that, my natural tendency is to forget things easier or fail to attempt to remember (make excuses), thus making my consequences real. The more I believe the more I become, I am a part of the negative consequence. Now, I am trying to turn that negative to a positive. As I said before, self-fulfilling prophecy goes both ways. Rather than accept that I do not have a superior memory, I can tell myself that my memory can improve – that it is not bad. My hope is that will become true. It is the belief that I can improve and it is not horrible, that a real, positive, true consequence will

Self deception is the process or fact of misleading ourselves to accept as true or valid what is false or invalid. Self deception, in short, is a way we justify false beliefs to ourselves. There is no doubt that sometimes we are not realistic. Not all of our actions are rational or intentional. Sometimes we avoid reality, we deny the truth, and we fool ourselves. In some cases we may see the world the way we want to, and not the way it is. Self deception raises basic questions about the nature of belief and the relation of belief to thought, desire, and will.

The first approach to self-schema development we will evaluate is Self-Discrepancy Theory (SDT) (Higgins, 1987). In this theory self-schemas develop to drive the actual self (who somebody is now) towards the ideal self (who somebody wants to be) and the ought self (who somebody should be according to others). Reflected appraisals build a network of the actual self, and this knowledge is used to move towards the ideal and ought selves. Discrepancies between actual and ideal result in dejection, and discrepancies between actual and ought result in agitation (Higgins, Bond, Klein, &

Our acting self is our attempt to present certain images of ourselves to others. We usually present a more positive side of ourselves, which affects how others view us. When we engage in activities that hinder our success, we call this self-handicapping. Self-handicapping gives us an excuse when things don’t turn out well for us.

Proprietary technologies can be owned, actively and effectively, at times by a single company. For instance, a pharmaceutical holding a patent on a particular compound that is the basis for a drug is an example of proprietary technologies. Infrastructural technology on the other hand provides more value when shared rather than used by a single organization. A company having all the rights to building railroads is an example of Infrastructural technology. This company can operate efficiently, but the effect to the economy is greater if the technology is shared and companies build railroads that can connect more buyers and sellers. Holding proprietary technologies, according to

Social psychology, the study of how we think about, influence, and relate to another, can be used to explain many situations and phenomena that happen in the world. For instance, it can be used to explain why and how people react the way they do when they perform poorly in an act that they’re usually good at, also known as self-serving bias. It is blaming external factors when bad things happen, but contributing internal factors to the reason why good things happen.

Future is unpredictable and uncontrollable event. Even we plan ahead of time, there’s still something that will get in the ways. But having a plan is always a good thing since we cannot predict what will happen. My life plan is very simple; getting a job, travel, being able to support my family and have enough money for investing. My 5 years plan will be the first step to obtain my life plan. The first thing is to have a decent career and earning a lot of money. I will be graduated in May 2016 as a petroleum engineering. Finding a job right now is very difficult since we are facing the downturn in oil industry. I will look for a job and working full time. Chevron, Exxon, Halliburton, Baker Huge are the companies that I would love to get a position in. I will try to learn, get more experiences and face all kind of real life petroleum problems, so that I will have a decent amount of skills which is needed if I aim for a promotion. While looking for a job in oil industry, my back-up plan is to work in a Nail Salon. Since most of Vietnamese people in the US is familiar with being a manicurist and it has a good payout. I have been helping my uncle with his salon in the weekend and I made quite enough money to cover my gas, food and books while attending college. So it sure will help me a lot during this downturn. The second thing is to marry my girlfriend. We are dating for 4 years, been through a lot of things and she is always by my side for the whole time. We’re planning to