Similarity and Analogical Reasoning (original) (raw)

Similarity and analogy are fundamental in human cognition. They are crucial for recognition and classification, and have been associated with scientific discovery and creativity. Successful learning is generally less dependent on the memorization of isolated facts and abstract rules than it is on the ability to identify relevant bodies of knowledge already stored as the starting point for new learning. Similarity and analogy play an important role in this process - a role that in recent years has received much attention from cognitive scientists. Any adequate understanding of similarity and analogy requires the integration of theory and data from diverse domains. This interdisciplinary volume explores current developments in research and theory from psychological, computational, and educational perspectives, and considers their implications for learning and instruction. Well-known cognitive scientists examine the psychological processes involved in reasoning by similarity and analogy, the computational problems encountered in simulating analogical processing in problem solving, and the conditions promoting the application of analogical reasoning in everyday situations.

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Select Preface

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Select Similarity and analogical reasoning: a synthesis

Select 1 - Similarity, typicality, and categorization

Select 2 - Similarity and decision making

Select 6 - Comments on Part I: Psychological essentialism

Select Part II - Analogical reasoning

Select 7 - The mechanisms of analogical learning

Select 8 - A computational model of analogical problem solving

Select 9 - Use of analogy in a production system architecture

Select 10 - Toward a microstructural account of human reasoning

Select 11 - Analogy and the exercise of creativity

Select 14 - Analogical learning and transfer: What develops?

Select 16 - Remindings in learning and instruction

Select 17 - New approaches to instruction: because wisdom can't be told

Select 18 - Multiple analogies for complex concepts: antidotes for analogy-induced misconception in advanced knowledge acquisition

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