Stereotype vs. Generalization

Stereotypenoun

A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person).

Stereotypenoun

(psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.

Stereotypenoun

(printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.

Stereotypenoun

An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.

Stereotypeverb

(transitive) To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.

Stereotypeverb

(transitive) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.

Stereotypeverb

(transitive) To print from a stereotype.

Stereotypeverb

To make firm or permanent; to fix.

Stereotypenoun

A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with type-metal face, used for printing.

Stereotypenoun

The art or process of making such plates, or of executing work by means of them.

Stereotypeverb

To prepare for printing in stereotype; to make the stereotype plates of; as, to stereotype the Bible.

Stereotypeverb

Fig.: To make firm or permanent; to fix.

Stereotypenoun

a conventional or formulaic conception or image;

Stereotypeverb

treat or classify according to a mental stereotype;

Stereotypenoun

a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing

Stereotypenoun

a person or thing that conforms to a widely held but oversimplified image of the class or type to which they belong

Stereotypenoun

a relief printing plate cast in a mould made from composed type or an original plate.

Stereotypeverb

view or represent as a stereotype

Stereotype

In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people. It is an expectation that people might have about every person of a particular group.

Generalizationnoun

The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.

Generalizationnoun

Inductive reasoning from detailed facts to general principles.

Generalizationnoun

An oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of the members of a group.

Generalizationnoun

(mathematics) A proof, axiom, problem, or definition which includes another's cases, and also some additional cases.

Generalizationnoun

The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars.

Generalizationnoun

A general inference.

Generalizationnoun

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

Generalizationnoun

reasoning from detailed facts to general principles

Generalizationnoun

an idea having general application;

Generalizationnoun

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

Generalization

A generalization is a form of abstraction whereby common properties of specific instances are formulated as general concepts or claims. Generalizations posit the existence of a domain or set of elements, as well as one or more common characteristics shared by those elements (thus creating a conceptual model).