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Generalization, stimulus

The spread of effects to other stimulus situations when behaviour is modified in the presence of one stimulus situation. generalisation occurs when stimulus control is absent or incomplete. (The child who calls all quadrupeds "doggie" is generalizing.) The same response occurs at other times, in other places, or in the presence of other people.

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