Bootstrapping the Mind: Analogical Processes and Symbol Systems

By Dedre Gentner. 2010

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Statistics and Probability

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The Oxford handbook of thinking and reasoning (2012, background): “Traditional accounts of analogy distinguish between two components of analogical reasoning: the target and the source (Holyoak, Chapter 13; Gentner 2010).”
Delayed benefits of learning elementary algebraic transformations through contrasted comparisons (2014, background): “This may be a problem if the learners do not have enough prior knowledge to align the examples (Gentner, 2010).”
Learning Through Case Comparisons: A Meta-Analytic Review (2013, background): “…& 2; Mason, 2004), definitions (e.g., a jiggy is a type of spatial relationship between drawings of animals and not a type of animal itself; Christie & Gentner, 2010, Experiments 1 & 2b), and/or categories (e.g., things are categorized by function and not form; Gentner & Namy, 1999, Experiment 2).”
Toward an Instructionally Oriented Theory of Example-Based Learning (2014, unknown): “, Gentner , 2010 ; Gust & K€ uhnberger , 2006 ) .”
A Case for Domain-Specific Curiosity in Mathematics (2019, background): “For one, identifying patterns requires drawing on prior knowledge to compare structurally disparate situations and contexts (Dumas et al. 2013; Gentner 2010).”
Analogical Reasoning in the Classroom: Insights from Cognitive Science. (2015, background): “Similarly, studies have suggested that analogical reasoning is enhanced when images of the source and target are displayed simultaneously versus sequentially (Christie & Gentner, 2010; Rittle-Johnson & Star, 2007).”
The power of internal feedback: exploiting natural comparison processes (2020, methodology): “Importantly, comparison research shows that schema abstraction and transfer occur, at some level, even when neither case is well understood (Kurtz, Miao, and Gentner 2001; Gentner 2010).”
When Younger Learners Can Be Better (or at Least More Open-Minded) Than Older Ones (2015, background): “Older children (and nonhuman primates) have difficulty with higher-order relational concepts such as “same” and “different” (Gentner, 2010; Penn, Holyoak, & Povinelli, 2008).”