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Son, Ji Y.; Doumas, Leonidas A. A.; Goldstone, Robert L. – Journal of Problem Solving, 2010
The purpose of this paper is to explore how and when verbal labels facilitate relational reasoning and transfer. We review the research and theory behind two ways words might direct attention to relational information: (1) words generically invite people to compare and thus highlight relations (the Generic Tokens [GT] hypothesis), and/or (2) words…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Relationship, Vocabulary, Transfer of Training