ALL meanings of generalization
gen·er·al·i·za·tion
G g - noun generalization being simplistic 1
- noun generalization simplistic statement 1
- noun generalization A general statement or concept obtained by inference from specific cases. 1
- noun generalization the act or process of generalizing. 1
- noun generalization a result of this process; a general statement, idea, or principle. 1
- noun generalization Logic. a proposition asserting something to be true either of all members of a certain class or of an indefinite part of that class. the process of obtaining such propositions. 1
- noun generalization Psychology. Also called stimulus generalization. the act or process of responding to a stimulus similar to but distinct from the conditioned stimulus. Also called response generalization. the act or process of making a different but similar response to the same stimulus. Also called mediated generalization. the act or process of responding to a stimulus not physically similar to the conditioned stimulus and not previously encountered in conditioning. the act or process of perceiving similarity or relation between different stimuli, as between words, colors, sounds, lights, concepts or feelings; the formation of a general notion. 1
- variable noun generalization A generalization is a statement that seems to be true in most situations or for most people, but that may not be completely true in all cases. 0
- noun generalization a principle, theory, etc, with general application 0
- noun generalization the act or an instance of generalizing 0
- noun generalization the evoking of a response learned to one stimulus by a different but similar stimulus 0
- noun generalization the derivation of a general statement from a particular one, formally by prefixing a quantifier and replacing a subject term by a bound variable. If the quantifier is universal (universal generalization) the argument is not in general valid; if it is existential (existential generalization) it is valid 0
- noun generalization any statement ascribing a property to every member of a class (universal generalization) or to one or more members (existential generalization) 0
- noun generalization the act or process of generalizing 0
- noun generalization a general idea, statement, etc. resulting from this; inference applied generally 0