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Download full textTirre, William C. – 1983
A common error in children's attempts to solve verbal analogies is to respond with a word strongly associated with the third term in the analogy. This is known as associative response. A study was conducted to investigate the cognitive processes underlying this response. Subjects, 112 fifth grade students, were administered a battery of tests…
Descriptors: Analogy, Associative Learning, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
