A teacher believes that students in his class that are from lower income areas are not as intelligent as students from higher income areas.As a result,he inadvertently provides them with less challenging work and does not demand the same level of performance.Over time,these students begin to show a decline in their test scores across a variety of subject matters.This illustrates what phenomenon?

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This situation demonstrates the self-fulfilling prophecy phenomenon, where a belief or expectation (in this case, the teacher's belief that lower income students are less intelligent) influences behavior (providing less challenging work) and ultimately leads to the outcome that confirms that belief (decline in test scores). The other options (ingroup-favoritism, outgroup homogeneity effect, old-fashioned racism) do not fully capture the dynamic at play in this scenario.

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