Question

Janet means well when she tells her daughter, "please do not ever date a boy with a tattoo. people with tattoos are dangerous. a girl down the street dated a boy with a huge tattoo and he ended up assaulting her." if this story is a deceptive exaggeration, janet is engaging in

Answer 1

I believe janet is engaging in Heuristic processing.
Heuristic processing refers to a method to process an information based on a simple if-then method.
In this particular case, Janet simplistically associates tattoo with bad behavior without having any solid data or reasonings to back it up.