I need a demonstration of self-fulfilling prophecy for a presentation...?

[Justthatperson]

I'm doing this presentation about self-fulfilling prophecy for school. It's supposed to be only 4-5 minutes long, and I have already come up with a script for two minutes. For the other two minutes, I want to do some sort of mini-demonstration of it, maybe come up with a chart or graph to explain it.

But what should it be about? Any ideas?

 

[mmm2]

Well, I have two cousins that are siblings and the younger sister scored all A's in the 5th grade, while older sister got C's. My aunt, grandma, and my uncle all told my cousin, you'll never be as smart as your sister. They told her that year after year, and year after year, she only scored C's. Then she applied to a 4 yr college and they old told her, you'll never get in with those grades... she got rejected and never applied anywhere else. Then they told her, you'll never make much money. Subsequently, she has only ever worked as a waitress. I think that is a Self-fulfilling Prophecy. You could show that on a graph/chart pretty easily.

 

[goodguy]

Someone keeps telling themselves they're not good enough for anything. They never get the motivation to try to accomplish anything. They die not being good enough for anything.