overgeneralisation
Too-wide rule application
Overgeneralisation is drawing broad conclusions from limited evidence, or applying a rule too widely.
A child who says goed instead of went is overgeneralising the past-tense rule.
In reasoning, it means treating a few instances as universal: He had one bad experience and overgeneralised to all doctors.
Also spelled overgeneralization.
Fixed oversimplified notion
- biasUnfair inclination or prejudice
- assumptionUnverified belief accepted as true
- heuristicPractical solving shortcut
- schemaOrganized representational structure
categorization · blanket statement · hasty conclusion · jumping to conclusions · mental shortcut · prejudgment · black-and-white thinking · cognitive distortion
Developing communication ability
- regularizationPenalty preventing model complexity
- morphologyStudy of structural forms
- inflectionWord form alteration
- footsPays a bill
developmental stage · verb conjugation · interlanguage · fossilization · second language learning · hypercorrection · analogy · overextension
Extending data beyond bounds
- sample biasSystematic sampling error
- small sampleFew items from larger group
- selection biasUnrepresentative sample causing errors
- anecdotal evidenceSupport from individual accounts
stereotype
Fixed oversimplified notion
- biasUnfair inclination or prejudice
- assumptionUnverified belief accepted as true
- heuristicPractical solving shortcut
schema · categorization · blanket statement · hasty conclusion · jumping to conclusions · mental shortcut · prejudgment · black-and-white thinking · cognitive distortion · oversimplification
language acquisition
Developing communication ability
- regularizationPenalty preventing model complexity
- morphologyStudy of structural forms
- inflectionWord form alteration
foots · developmental stage · verb conjugation · interlanguage · fossilization · second language learning · hypercorrection · analogy · overextension · grammatical error
extrapolation
Extending data beyond bounds
- sample biasSystematic sampling error
- small sampleFew items from larger group
- selection biasUnrepresentative sample causing errors
anecdotal evidence · overfitting · generalizability · boundary conditions
overgeneralisationspecificity
Exactness of detail
discrimination · attention to detail · differentiation · granularity · precision
overgeneralisationmissing the forest for the trees
Losing perspective in minutiae
understatement · tunnel vision · splitting hairs · reductionism · myopia
overgeneralisationnuance
Slight shade of difference
subtlety · precision · discernment · exactitude · circumspection
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