Journal article
2008
Alice Gabrielle Twight Professor of Psychology & Education
(847)467-1272
Department of Psychology
Northwestern University
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Gentner, D., Loewenstein, J., Magliano, J. P., & Pillow, B. H. (2008). LEARNING ANALOGICAL REASONING.
Chicago/Turabian
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Gentner, D., Jeffrey Loewenstein, Joseph P. Magliano, and B. H. Pillow. “LEARNING ANALOGICAL REASONING” (2008).
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Gentner, D., et al. LEARNING ANALOGICAL REASONING. 2008.
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@article{d2008a,
title = {LEARNING ANALOGICAL REASONING},
year = {2008},
author = {Gentner, D. and Loewenstein, Jeffrey and Magliano, Joseph P. and Pillow, B. H.}
}
Analogy plays an important role in learning and instruction. As John Bransford, Jeffrey Franks, Nancy Vye, and Robert Sherwood noted in 1989, analogies can help students make connections between different concepts and transfer knowledge from a wellunderstood domain to one that is unfamiliar or not directly perceptual. For example, the circulatory system is often explained as being like a plumbing system, with the heart as pump.