{"id":9339,"date":"2019-05-22T16:17:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/undergeneralization\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:17:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:17:46","slug":"undergeneralization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/undergeneralization\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergeneralization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as underextension, it is a failure to use a word across its full adult range. &nbsp;For example, a child might restrict the word &#8216;dog&#8217; by only allowing it to refer to the family pet. &nbsp;One of the explanations forundergeneraliztion is that children, especially those around two years-of-age, are not able to tell the difference betweeninherent properties of things and accidental ones. In the case of calling a dog a dog when it is the family pet.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"language_development\">Language development<\/a>, <a href=\"overgeneralization\">Overgeneralization<\/a>, <a href=\"pleonastic_extensions\">Pleonastic extensions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as underextension, it is a failure to use a word across its full adult range. &nbsp;For example, a child might restrict the word &#8216;dog&#8217; by only allowing it to refer to the family pet. &nbsp;One of the explanations forundergeneraliztion is that children, especially those around two years-of-age, are not able to tell the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/undergeneralization\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Undergeneralization&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-9339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}