Comparison Facilitates Children's Learning of Names for Parts

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Using Relational Reasoning to Learn About Scientific Phenomena at Unfamiliar Scales (2016, background): “Analogical reasoning is a specific kind of relational reasoning, which refers to aligning structural similarities between a base concept and target concept (e.g., Gentner et al. 2007; Markman and Gentner 1993a).”
The Import of Knowledge Export: Connecting Findings and Theories of Transfer of Learning (2012, background): “The less similar two situations are overall, the less likely it becomes that corresponding entities will share overt surface similarities, and thus the process of mapping itself becomes both more cognitively demanding and more prone to error (see Gentner, Loewenstein, & Hung, 2007 ).”
Bootstrapping the Mind: Analogical Processes and Symbol Systems (2010, unknown): “…2009; Liu, Golinkoff, & Sak, 2001; Namy & Gentner, 2002) and of conceptual regularities (Chen & Klahr, 1999; Gentner, Levine, Dhillon, & Poltermann, 2009; Kotovsky & Gentner, 1996; Opfer & Siegler, 2007; Thompson & Opfer, in press), even in infants (Oakes & Ribar, 2005; Wang & Baillargeon, 2008).”
Analogical Reasoning in the Classroom: Insights from Cognitive Science. (2015, background): “As an illustration of this point, Gentner, Loewenstein, and Hung (2007) found that preschoolers were more likely to learn novel part names when they compared examples that shared many versus few perceptual features.”