(Psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus.
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Examples for "generalization "
Examples for "generalization "
1 The Chinese Mencius has not been the least successful in his generalization .
2 The generalization is always imperfect because each volcano is a bit different.
3 This admirable generalization lacked the necessary concomitant of intelligent and speedy execution.
4 The unreliability of rules is further explained by their rise from generalization .
5 Hypergraphs are a generalization of graphs where edges can connect several vertices.
1 He has little power of generalisation , he has no skill in abstraction.
2 Mr. Clausen, I said, overcame the difficulty of the trousers by generalisation .
3 It seems Gere is not immune to the convenience of the generalisation .
4 We have, then, added a third term to our generalisation about art.
5 The study population was small and generalisation to other cancers is not possible.
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