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A mental picture that an individual holds about a person because of that person's age, religion etc suffer from judgmental error namely ________.

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The correct option is C stereotyping
A mental picture that an individual holds about a person because of that person's age, religion etc suffer from judgmental error namely stereotyping. In simple words, stereotype can be defined as an over=generalized belief about a particular class of people.

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