Generalization (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. the act or process of generalizing.
  2. a result of this process; a general statement, idea, or principle.
  3. 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.
  4. Psychology.
    • the act or process of responding to a stimulus similar to but distinct from the conditioned stimulus.
    • the act or process of making a different but similar response to the same stimulus.
    • 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.
noun
  1. a principle, theory, etc, with general application
  2. the act or an instance of generalizing
  3. the evoking of a response learned to one stimulus by a different but similar stimulus
  4. 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
  5. any statement ascribing a property to every member of a class (universal generalization) or to one or more members (existential generalization)
Generalization (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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