student question

[Carla Grayson]

Tipsters,

I got this question in the midst of a lecture about schemas. What would
you call the phenomenon when a student gets the first few problems on a
test wrong and then falls apart on the rest of the test? The idea here
is that they think, oh, I didn't get the first couple of questions
right, I must not know the material. I think this is some kind of
self-perception phenomenon. I know it's not self-fulfilling prophecy
(which requires 2 people). Can somebody jog my memory?

Thanks!
Carla Grayson