Fixed, general images that a lot of people believe represent a particular group of people are known as:

The answer that describes that it is a fixed general image or characteristic in which a lot of people believe as it represents a type of individual is stereotype. This is being built as a way of how other people perceives a type of individual base on the image that they know about or things that will support of how the individual is, that it forms the idea of what the individual is or look like.

when your a dog and you need a bone.   go and eat a rabbit

answer; triadic reciprocal determinism;