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Commentary: Analogical Thinking in Geoscience Education
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Geoscience instructors and textbooks rely on analogy for teaching students a wide range of content, from the most basic concepts to highly complicated systems. The goal of this paper is to connect educational and cognitive science resea...
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Psychology in Cognitive Science: 1978-2038
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This paper considers the past and future of Psychology within Cognitive Science. In the history section, I focus on three questions: (a) how has the position of Psychology evolved within Cognitive Science, relative to the other discipli...
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Bootstrapping the Mind: Analogical Processes and Symbol Systems
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Human cognition is striking in its brilliance and its adaptability. How do we get that way? How do we move from the nearly helpless state of infants to the cognitive proficiency that characterizes adults? In this paper I argue, first, t...
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Mutual bootstrapping between language and analogical processing
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Abstract What makes us so smart as a species, and what makes children such rapid learners? We argue that the answer to both questions lies in a mutual bootstrapping system comprised of (1) our exceptional capacity for relational cogniti...
Publication · 5d
The Use of Qualitative Principles to Promote Understanding of Systems
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Prior work has demonstrated that individuals have poor intuitive understanding of the principles governing the dynamics of systems, including an understanding of stocks and flows. We present pilot data that suggests that providing indiv...
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Structural Constraints and Real-World Plausibility in Analogical Inference
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Structural Constraints and Real-World Plausibility in Analogical Inference Linsey A. Smith ([email protected]) Dedre Gentner ([email protected]) Department of Psychology, Northwestern University 2029 Sheridan Road, Evanst...
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