the process of making statements about the general population on the basis of relevant research
An inference made from a sample to a population The researcher attempts to extend the results of his/her study to a much larger group of people Ho: See Null hypothesis
The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties
The process of training your dog to perform the same behaviour in different, novel and distracting locations
{i} act of generalizing; general statement or conclusion; (Psychology) act of reacting to a new stimulus as to a similar stimulus (also generalization)
The act of taking a specific incident or behaviour and generalising the content across contexts, as if it were a generic pattern Eg "people always do that", or "if it works at all, it will work everywhere"
the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances