Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: Research on analogical mapping has not yet focused on the fate of information about the base and target domains that is not relevant to the correspondence.We suggest that there are two methods for dealing with irrelevant information in analogies.Nonalignable objects are ignored, while irrelevant attributes of alignable differences are packed away using a process that is a long term equivalent to the suppression process observed in the text comprehension literature.We report one study that supports this hypothesis by demonstrating that unpacking irrelevant information interferes with memory for domains involved in a comparison.
Authors: C. Hunt Stilwell, Arthur B. Markman
Institution: The University of Texas at Austin
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: National Science Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W2610386944