Preschoolers’ Induction of the Concept of Material Kind to Make Predictions: The Effects of Comparison and Linguistic Labels

Volume: 11
Published: Nov 19, 2020
Abstract
Inductive reasoning is fundamental for scientific reasoning. Analogical reasoning by comparison is considered a special case of inductive reasoning, allowing learners to induce underlying commonalities of several entities, thereby decreasing the salience of the objects’ common superficial, perceptual features (e.g., Namy & Gentner, 2002). In the present research, we tested whether task environments aimed to trigger analogical reasoning by...
Paper Details
Title
Preschoolers’ Induction of the Concept of Material Kind to Make Predictions: The Effects of Comparison and Linguistic Labels
Published Date
Nov 19, 2020
Volume
11
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