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What type of faulty reasoning does this statement reflect? "If my cookies burned in the oven and your cookies burned in the oven, that must mean that all cookies burn when baking in the oven."

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This would be an over generalization.

I don't know what the options for the answer are anything about making an over generalization or a hasty generalization should be correct.

Another generalization would be something like this: I've met three people from France, they were all smart, so all people from France are smart

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