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Which of the following examples best shows how expectations (i.e.,schemas) can be self-fulfilling prophecies?


A) Participants primed to think of the elderly actually walk slower down a hallway.
B) Teachers who expect that some children will do well in school actually enable those children to perform better.
C) People are more likely to apply the trait of dependence to a female character in a novel than to a male character.
D) A schema that is frequently activated will be more likely to be applied to a new stimulus than one that is seldom activated.

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