TY - GEN
T1 - Effects of Comparison and Explanation on Analogical Transfer
AU - Edwards, Brian J.
AU - Williams, Joseph Jay
AU - Gentner, Dedre
AU - Lombrozo, Tania
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Amy Lee for assistance with coding. The research was supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (BJE), ONR grant N00014-13-1-0470 (DG), and NSF grant DRL-1056712 (TL).
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PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Although comparison and explanation have typically been studied independently, recent work suggests connections between these processes. Three experiments investigated effects of comparison and explanation on analogical problem solving. In Experiment 1, explaining the solutions to two analogous stories increased spontaneous transfer to an analogical problem. In Experiment 2, explaining a single story promoted analogical transfer, but only after receiving a hint that may have facilitated comparison. In Experiment 3, irrelevant stories were interspersed among the two story analogs to block unprompted comparison; prompts to compare were effective, but prompts to explain were not. This pattern suggests that effects of explanation on analogical transfer may be greatest when combined with comparison.
AB - Although comparison and explanation have typically been studied independently, recent work suggests connections between these processes. Three experiments investigated effects of comparison and explanation on analogical problem solving. In Experiment 1, explaining the solutions to two analogous stories increased spontaneous transfer to an analogical problem. In Experiment 2, explaining a single story promoted analogical transfer, but only after receiving a hint that may have facilitated comparison. In Experiment 3, irrelevant stories were interspersed among the two story analogs to block unprompted comparison; prompts to compare were effective, but prompts to explain were not. This pattern suggests that effects of explanation on analogical transfer may be greatest when combined with comparison.
KW - analogical transfer
KW - Comparison
KW - explanation
KW - learning
KW - problem solving
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M3 - Conference contribution
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T3 - Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014
SP - 445
EP - 450
BT - Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014
PB - The Cognitive Science Society
T2 - 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014
Y2 - 23 July 2014 through 26 July 2014
ER -