Preschoolers' Induction of the Concept of Material Kind to Make Predictions: The Effects of Comparison and Linguistic Labels

• Published in: Frontiers in psychology Vol. 11; p. 531503
• Main Authors: Hardy, Ilonca, Saalbach, Henrik, Leuchter, Miriam, Schalk, Lennart
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 19.11.2020
• Subjects: comparison; induction; labeling; preschool; Psychology; scientific reasoning; preschool; comparison; induction; scientific reasoning; labeling

Analogical reasoning by comparison is considered a special case of inductive reasoning, which is fundamental to the scientific method. By reasoning analogically, learners can abstract the underlying commonalities of several entities, thereby ignoring single objects' superficial features. We tes...