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Analogical Reasoning
analogical reasoning in education
analogies
Ascending Tone
associative
Associative Reasoning
Author_Usha Goswami
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Causal Transformation
Children's Analogical Reasoning
Clue Word
cognitive development
conceptual transfer
concrete
Concrete Analogies
Decoding Analogies
developmental psychology
Dienes Blocks
Dot Analogies
early childhood cognition
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Game Board
Geometric Analogies
High Perceptual Similarity
insight
knowledge
learning mechanisms
Medium Cylinder
Onset Rime Division
perceptual
Piaget's Structural Theory
problem-solving skills
proportional
Purple Martin
relational
Relative Numerosity
representational
Representational Insight
Shared Spelling Patterns
similarity
Target Problem
Water Falls
White Cells
Product details
- ISBN 9780863773242
- Weight: 310g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 24 Aug 1993
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Analogical reasoning is a fundamental cognitive skill, involved in classification, learning, problem-solving and creative thinking, and should be a basic building block of cognitive development. However, for a long time researchers have believed that children are incapable of reasoning by analogy. This book argues that this is far from the case, and that analogical reasoning may be available very early in development. Recent research has shown that even 3-year-olds can solve analogies, and that infants can reason about relational similarity, which is the hallmark of analogy.
The book traces the roots of the popular misconceptions about children's analogical abilities and argues that when children fail to use analogies, it is because they do not understand the relations underlying the analogy rather than because they are incapable of analogical reasoning. The author argues that young children spontaneously use analogies in learning, and that their analogies can sometimes lead them into misconceptions. In the "real worlds" of their classrooms, children use analogies when learning basic skills like reading, and even babies seem to use analogies to learn about the world around them.
