Jill is nervous about her biology test and says to her roommate, "This is stupid! I'm stupid! I'm going to fail." When Jill gets her test back a week later, she learns that she did, in fact, fail the test. Jill engaged in ____

A) mindreading
B) a self-fulfilling prophecy
C) an attribution
D) using a prototype
E) using a stereotype

B

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