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Peer reviewedGoswami, Usha – Child Development, 1991
Children's analogical reasoning has traditionally been measured by classical four-term analogy tasks or problem-solving tasks. Current theories of analogical development and the evidence on which they are based are reviewed. It is concluded that structural views of analogical development are wrong, and knowledge-based accounts of what develops are…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Analogy, Children
