What is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
A self-fulfilling prophecy is a false belief that leads to its own fulfillment, and it involves three events (Madon et al., 2011):
expectations
How The Brain Makes Sense of Sensory Stimuli: Bottom-Up and Top-Down Processing
To create our perceptions, the brain makes use of two processing systems, namely the bottom-up and the top-down processing system.