Question

Study the example and choose the influence on perception. Those computer geeks are all the same. They spend all day playing video games and programming their computers to serve them breakfast. I don't think I've ever seen one reading a real book or throwing a baseball. Why, they're almost like machines!
a. primacy-recency
b. attribution
c. stereotyping
d. self-fulfilling prophecy

Answer 1

The choices above are social psychology terms that help describe the people’s actions in their everyday interaction with people. The sentence example is:   Those computer geeks are all the same.

They spend all day playing video games and programming their computers to serve them breakfast. I don't think I've ever seen one reading a real book or throwing a baseball. Why, they're almost like machines!  

Is an example of stereotyping. Stereotyping happens when a person applies a single group behavior or minority behavior to a whole group ‘s behavior sharing the same characteristic.