This is a predictive generalization applied to a person or situation. based on the category in which we place someone or something and how that person or thing measures up against the personal constructs we apply, we predict what he, she, or it will do?

Stereotypes.

Explanation:

A stereotype is an over-generalized belief about a particular category of people. This gives us parameters of options that said person in a certain stereotype could follow or not. They are labels that, in this case, work as predictive generalizations.

answer; i believe the correct answer is (a) the correlation between the cause variable and outcome variable is zero;

no questions on whether they are allowed that right