Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: Analogy and transfer studies belong to distinct research areas regarding both the theoretical frameworks and the experimental paradigms, although they both contribute to the fundamental question of the generalization of learning.The aim of this paper is to show that those fields might be reanalyzed within a common framework, emphasizing the role of the abstraction level at which the problem is encoded, which might contribute to an unified theory of generalization of learning. Analogy and transferAnalogy and transfer of learning, which are two distinct areas in cognitive psychology as the lack of cross references between the two fields illustrates, are both concerned with the same basic questions: how can what has been learned in a specific situation be generalized to new situations and what conditions are necessary and/or sufficient to generate transfer from one situation to another?We shall attempt to reanalyze both phenomena within the same theoretical framework and show how this analysis contributes to the fundamental question of the generalization of learning.Differences and similarities in the study of analogy and transfer.
Author: Nikolaus Ritt
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2767598041