Analogical Reasoning in Children

By:

Usha Goswami

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Essays in Developmental Psychology

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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. Research has shown that even three-year-olds can solve analogies, and that infants can reason about relational similarity, which is the hallmark of analogy. This 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 world" of the classroom, children use analogies when learning basic skills like reading, and even babies seem to use analogies to learn about the world around them.

Release date Australia

August 24th, 1993

Author

Usha Goswami

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

168

Series

Essays in Developmental Psychology

Dimensions

152x229x9

ISBN-13

9780863773242

Product ID

8223943

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