The pattern by which fear responses spread from original conditioned stimuli to similar stimuli, with stronger responses to more similar stimuli and weaker responses to dissimilar ones.
Example: Fear of the specific dog that bit someone generalizing to similar large dogs (strong response) but not to small dogs or cats (weak or no response).
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