Question

doug is the head of hr of a small digital marketing firm. recently many of the employees had been speaking to him about feelings of depression and lack of creativity. doug remembers from his psychology classes that some theorist believe that dreams might give insight into personal mental turmoil. he decides to start asking people who come in with these problems about their dreams. interestingly enough, of the next 10 people who came into talk to him about their despondency 5 of them had recently had a dream containing a whale in it. doug concludes that dreaming of a whale must be a internal symbol for depression and a fall in creativity.

Explanation:

Doug concludes that dreaming of a whale is an internal symbol for depression and lack of creativity based on a small sample of 10 people where 5 had such dreams. This is overgeneralizing as he's making a broad conclusion from limited evidence.

Answer:

OVERGENERALIZATION