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Clé de citation BibTeX: Gentner1986
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Gentner, D., & Toupin, C. (1986). Systematicity and surface similarity in the development of analogy. Cognitive science, 10, pp. 277–300.
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Résumé
This research investigates the development of analogy : In particular, we wish to
study the development of systematicity in analogy . Systematicity refers to the
mapping of systems of mutually constraining relations, such as causal chains or
chains of implication . A preference for systematic mappings is a central aspect of
analogical processing in adults (Gentner, 1980, 1983) . This research asks two
questions: Does systematicity make analogical mapping easier? And, if so,
when, developmentally, do children become able to utilize systematicity?
Children aged 5-7 and 8-10 acted out stories with toy characters . Then they
were asked to act out the same stories with new characters . Two variables were
manipulated : systematicity, or the degree of explicit causal structure in the original
stories, and the transparency of the object-mappings . Transparency was
manipulated by varying the similarity between the original characters and the
corresponding new characters ; it was included in order to vary the difficulty of
the transfer task. If children can utilize systematicity, then their transfer accuracy
should be greater for systematic stories .
The results show: (1) As expected, transparency strongly influenced transfer
accuracy (for both age groups, transfer accuracy dropped sharply as the object
correspondences became less transparent) ; and (2) for the older group, there
was also a strong effect of systematicity and an interaction between the two
variables . Given a systematic story, 9-year-olds could transfer it accurately
regardless of the transparency of the object correspondence .
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