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Barney, an admissions officer, is interviewing a college applicant about whom he has very high positive expectations. Barney is outgoing and cheerful during the interview, spends considerable time recruiting the applicant, and asks the applicant questions that solicit positive information. As a result, Barney is pleased with the applicant’s performance and admits her to the school. This interview process demonstrates an example of

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Answer:Self-fulfilling prophecy/effects

Step-by-step explanation:

Self-fulfilling prophecy or effects is a phenomena which is based on abiliry of a person usually an intervierwer to make evaluation of an individual by pre-noticing and interptreting outcomes before actually relating with the individual. Such evaluation tends to manifests in the individual's life because it has been thought. For example,Barney, the admissions officer assumes that a certain applicant will perform well Barney might give that student more attention by asking the applicant questions that solicit positive information, resulting in good performance by the student. Barney, in turn, will have the original assumption about the applicant validated.

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Answer:

a. the Hawthorne effect.

b. a self-fulfilling prophecy.

c. a contrast effect.

d. entrapment.

The answer is b. a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Step-by-step explanation:

Self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that causes itself to be true due to the behavior which involves the act of predicting it by the believer.

It is also based on the ability of a person usually an interviewer to make evaluation of an individual by pre-noticing and interpreting outcomes before actually relating with the individual.

Barney already had the original assumption about the applicant validated and the interview confirmed it.

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