the bizarreness of communication

There is more to prophecy than we know aside from that it also happens to be where Harry Potter's poor, poor future lies. What revolves around us though, non-magical equipped people, is the self-fullfilling prophecy which influences communication. Now talk about overly powerful! To live, not only do we need the basic essentials such as food, shelter, clothes, food and everything thats mentioned on the Maslow's Hierachy of Needs but communication which is too one of the most important skills needed to climb the top of the hierachy.

According to Adler and Rodman's book of Understanding Human Communication, self-fulfilling prophecy occurs when a person's expectation of an outcome makes the outcome more likely to occur than would otherwise have been true. To put this in perfect english, it simply means that if you're already expecting success, thus the confidence might just bag you the goal within reach. However, it may also be vice versa. For example, a explanation by a peer about a certain task and mentioning how you might not be able to fulfill the standards it requires causes you to actually not do well in the end. In the situation given, the respective results happen perhaps because you were discouraged by the level of expectation one has of you. Thus, you did not perform well. Overall, these two types of self-fulfilling prophecies which compromises of when your own expectations influences your behaviour and when expectations of one govern another's actions only occurs as each result happens due to the expectation that it would happen.

Furthermore, acceptance of an remark or evaluation, may also trigger change to their self-concepts in order to include that evaluation. For example, if a teacher sends the message, "Your dumb," you might take it as a challenge and prove the teacher wrongly. Therefore, there are certainly times where you cannot expect a certain expectation to result from a certain situation. Weather, drawing an ace in a card game, etc are some examples to reflect on.Thus, expectations are only what they are because you are a good predictor, not because of the whole self-fulfilling concept.

Nor Fatin Suraiya