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Young children's mental models determine analogical transfer across problems with a common goal structure *
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This paper found that children as young as 3 years of age have the underlying competence to transfer a common problem solution; level of representation rather than age determines transfer efficiency. But they did not find that children who did not represent the problems at the level of underlying goal paths, but instead attended to interesting surface features of particular stories, failed to transfer.About:
This article is published in Cognitive Development.The article was published on 1986-04-01. It has received 213 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Transfer of learning & Analogy.read more
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When and where do we apply what we learn?: A taxonomy for far transfer.
Susan M. Barnett,Stephen J. Ceci +1 more
TL;DR: A framework is provided that describes 9 relevant dimensions and shows that the literature can productively be classified along these dimensions, with each study situated at the intersection of various dimensions.
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Analogical mapping by constraint satisfaction
Keith J. Holyoak,Paul Thagard +1 more
TL;DR: A theory of analogical mapping between source and target analogs based upon interacting structural, semantic, and pragmatic constraints is proposed here and is able to account for empirical findings regarding the impact of consistency and similarity on human processing of analogies.
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The Career of Metaphor.
Brian F. Bowdle,Dedre Gentner +1 more
TL;DR: The career of metaphor hypothesis offers a unified theoretical framework that can resolve the debate between comparison and categorization models of metaphor and suggests that whether metaphors are processed directly or indirectly and whether they operate at the level of individual concepts or entire conceptual domains, will depend both on their degree of conventionality and on their linguistic form.
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Distributed representations of structure: A theory of analogical access and mapping.
John E. Hummel,Keith J. Holyoak +1 more
TL;DR: An integrated theory of analogical access and mapping, instantiated in a computational model called LISA (Learning and Inference with Schemas and Analogies), suggesting that the architecture of LISA can provide computational explanations of properties of the human cognitive architecture.
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All Other Things Being Equal: Acquisition and Transfer of the Control of Variables Strategy
Zhe Chen,David Klahr +1 more
TL;DR: This study addressed an important issue in scientific reasoning and cognitive development: how children acquire a domain-general processing strategy (Control of Variables Strategy or CVS) and generalize it across various contexts.
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Levels of processing: A framework for memory research
TL;DR: This paper reviewed the evidence for multistore theories of memory and pointed out some difficulties with the approach and proposed an alternative framework for human memory research in terms of depth or levels of processing.
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Schema induction and analogical transfer
Mary L. Gick,Keith J. Holyoak +1 more
TL;DR: This paper showed that if two prior analogs were given, subjects often derived a problem schema as an incidental product of describing the similarities of the analogs, and the quality of the induced schema was highly predictive of subsequent transfer performance.
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Analogical problem solving
Mary L. Gick,Keith J. Holyoak +1 more
TL;DR: The use of an analogy from a semantically distant domain to guide the problemsolving process was investigated in five experiments as discussed by the authors, where subjects who first read a story about a military problem and its solution tended to generate analogous solutions to a medical problem, provided they were given a hint to use the story to help solve the problem.
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Remembrance of things parsed: Story structure and recall☆
Jean M. Mandler,Nancy S. Johnson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of the underlying structure of simple stories is presented and it is claimed that this type of representation of stories is used to form schemata which guide encoding and retrieval.