generalization

Noun

• (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus

• the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances

• an idea or conclusion having general application
  • he spoke in broad generalities
    

• reasoning from detailed facts to general principles

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  generalisation , stimulus generalization , stimulus generalisation , abstraction , generality , induction , inductive reasoning