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Direct linkWalker, Caren M.; Hubachek, Samantha Q.; Vendetti, Michael S. – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Analogical reasoning is essential for transfer by supporting recognition of relational similarity. However, not all analogies are created equal. The source and target can be similar (near), or quite different (far). Previous research suggests that close comparisons facilitate children's relational abstraction. On the other hand, evidence from…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Preschool Children, Puzzles, Task Analysis
Kastens, Kim A.; Agrawal, Shruti; Liben, Lynn S. – International Journal of Science Education, 2009
Geologists and undergraduate students observed eight artificial "rock outcrops" in a realistically scaled field area, and then tried to envision a geological structure that might plausibly be formed by the layered rocks in the set of outcrops. Students were videotaped as they selected which of fourteen 3-D models they thought best…
Descriptors: Geology, Scientists, Majors (Students), Undergraduate Students
DeLoache, Judy S.; Sharon, Tanya – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2005
Surface similarity generally promotes reasoning by analogy and physical similarity has been shown to have a powerful positive effect on very young children's use of a scale model as a source of information about another space. The research reported here investigated 2 1/2-year-old children's performance in an object retrieval task when asked to…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Inferences, Cognitive Development, Logical Thinking
