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Three characteristics of school writing activities that aay make it difficult for students to learn to write with skill and enthusiasm are identified in this paper. They are: the solitary nature of most writing tasks, a lopsided emphasi...
Publication · 5d
How close is too close? Alignment and perceptual similarity in children's categorization
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ABSTRACT Our past studies have found that for young children, the act of comparing perceptually similar entities can lead to insight into conceptual relations shared by the two entities. Thus, paradoxically, comparing perceptually simil...
Publication · 5d
Learning abstract principles through principle-case comparison
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Learning abstract principles is an essential goal of education, but such principles can be difficult to acquire. Three studies ask whether comparison of a principle and an instantiating case will lead to better understanding of the prin...
Publication · 5d
Can relationality be distinguished from abstractness in noun mutability
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Can Relationality be Distinguished from Abstractness in Noun Mutability? Dedre Gentner ([email protected]) Department of Psychology, Northwestern University Evanston, IL 60208 USA Jennifer A. Asmuth ([email protected]) Depa...
Publication · 5d
Analogy as a mechanism of comparison
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When we think of analogies, we often imagine cases where drawing on complex concepts from one domain helps to extend our comprehension of concepts from a different domain. As such, the use of analogies is often associated with creativit...
Publication · 5d