Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2018

Published In

The SAGE Encyclopedia Of Lifespan Human Development

Abstract

Analogical reasoning is the ability to perceive and use relational commonality between two situations. Most commonly, analogy involves mapping relational structures from a familiar (base situation to an unfamiliar situation (target). For example, solving the analogy “chicken is to chick like tiger is to___?” requires perceiving the relation parent–offspring in the base domain (chicken:chick) and mapping the same relation to the target (tiger:__?) to get to the answer cub. Relational similarity is the crux of analogical reasoning; what is crucial here is the sameness of the relation, not of other similarities—chickens and tigers do not look alike.

Keywords

cats, children, language development, learners, maps, mice, Raven's Progressive Matrices

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SAGE

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M. H. Bornstein

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