Focusing on the general characteristics of a problem or object, while ignoring the details, is a technique called
O refinement
O abstraction
O decomposition
O pattern recognition
In computer science, abstraction has a similar definition. It is a simplified version of something technical, such as a function or an object in a program. The goal of "abstracting" data is to reduce complexity by removing unnecessary information. At some level, we all think of computers in abstract terms.
