Analogical problem solving

By Mary Gick, Keith J. Holyoak. 1980

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Enhancing Mathematical Problem Solving for Students with Disabilities (2005, background): “Research (Asch, 1969; Catrambone & Holyoak, 1989; Gick & Holyoak, 1980; Keane, 1988; Ross, 1989) shows that performance increases when participants are cued to anticipate similarities across tasks.”
Introduction to “New Conceptualizations of Transfer of Learning” (2012, background): “…cultural differences in the quantity and quality of cross-situational connections will be important for tailoring teaching for transfer and for finding ways to inspire students to be “intellectual entrepreneurs” who proactively create their own opportunities for leveraging their prior knowledge.”
Creativity: A Framework for the Design/Problem Solving Discourse in Technology Education (2005, background): “Divergent Thinking Divergent thinking was included by Guilford (1959) as a facet of his structure of intellect. In this work, Guilford proposed that intellect was composed of thought processes or operations, contents that are the raw material of operations, and products that are outcomes of operatio”
A "Small-World" Network Model of Cognitive Insight (2005, methodology): “The participants solve the problem (split up the rays/army into smaller units and send them to the tumor/fortress by multiple paths) by mapping the military solution to the tumor problem (Duncker, 1945; Gick & Holyoak, 1980).”
Extraneous perceptual information interferes with children's acquisition of mathematical knowledge (2013, background): “…or metaphors (which is often the case with mathematical concepts), even adults can fail to recognize and transfer learned relations to novel contexts (Gick & Holyoak, 1980, 1983; Goswami, 1991; Kaminski, Sloutsky, & Heckler, 2008; Novick, 1988; Reed, Dempster, & Ettinger, 1985; Reed, Ernst, &…”
Improving Students' Ability to Identify and Use Source Information (2002, background): “Although transfer is critical to producing ﬂexible knowledge that can be applied in various real world situations, researchers have typically found it difﬁcult to achieve (Gick & Holyoak, 1980; Hayes & Simon, 1977).”
Adaptive expertise: Effects of type of experience and the level of theoretical understanding it generates (2002, methodology): “…experiments involving carefully designed training followed by a well-defined test of transfer to analogous, but novel, problems (e.g., Brown & Kane, 1988; Chen & Klahr, 1999; Gick & Holyoak, 1980; Judd, 1908; Kosonen & Winne, 1995; Reed, Ernst, & Banerji, 1974; Thorndike & Woodworth, 1901).”
On the benefits and pitfalls of analogies for innovative design : Ideation performance based on analogical distance, commonness, and modality of examples (2011, background): “from memory [20] or notice as relevant to one’s target problem [5].”
Learning and Transfer: A General Role for Analogical Encoding (2003, background): “Several studies have shown that inducing people to explicitly compare two exemplars fosters transfer to new situations (Catrambone & Holyoak, 1989; Gick & Holyoak, 1980, 1983; Kurtz et al., 2001; Reeves & Weisberg, 1990).”