Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

The study of psychology has lead to many interesting discoveries and realizations. One of these being self-fulfilling prophecies. Self-fulfilling prophecies are the prediction or feeling about some future event that becomes true as a result of intense belief and behaviour. While they seem quite minute, these strange little predictions actually control our society as we know it. These prophecies are not limited to influencing the small day-to-day decisions, but have such a great effect that it controls the very concept of war. The idea that war is inevitable is a highly debated topic that has much to do with self-fulfilling prophecies. The fact that we have a debate over the inevitability of something quite easily leads itself to becoming a
We have our preconceived ideas of success in these environments and a number of influencers can play into this situation. This success is mostly impacted by the societal standards, teachers, students, and students’ families. This opens it up to many possible predictions that influence the success of a student in an educational setting. Society expects the best results from affluent areas and very little from impoverished areas. We train our youth that if you are from the minority or have little money you will be bound to repeat this cycle. Teachers can influence the success with their own predictions of how they interact with their students. Positively reinforcing the students creates a spark of hope in them and impacts behaviour and success. The families of the students have their own expectations of the students and a negative prediction of their success can cause them to achieve negative results. The standards students hold themselves to is one of the most difficult to overcome as it is wired into their brain what they believe they are capable of. All of these relationships combined are just more self-fulfilling prophecies intertwined with one another that influence whether or not a student will achieve