Question

The professor announced the first day of class: "Students are not good at meeting deadlines. I guarantee you that someone will email me the day after a due date and ask if I will accept a paper for partial credit." Yesterday the first paper was due in the professor's class. He just checked his email and a student inquired whether the paper could be turned in for partial credit today. This is an example of

Answer 1

The answer is: a self-fulfilling prophecy

Step-by-step explanation:

A self-fulfilling prophecy happens when an individual expects something to happen, and that situation does happen because the individual believed in it and his behavior was influenced by that. A person's expectation about other people will make those other people behave in a way that confirms those expectations.

For example, if I'm convinced that science class is extremely difficult and very few students get good grades, I'm probably not going to do very well in it.