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Peer reviewedPauen, Sabina; Wilkening, Friedrich – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1997
Three studies investigated the analogical reasoning of 127 children in a physics task using an analogy generated by the children. Found that 9- to 10-year olds showed spontaneous transfer in both negative and positive analogy training conditions, while 7-year olds showed no transfer in the positive analogy condition but transferred only selected…
Descriptors: Analogy, Children, Cognitive Development, Physics
