Abstract

TAVERNINI, Lucía Micaela; TRENCH, Máximo; OLGUIN, Valeria  and  MINERVINO, Ricardo A. Sthe role of object similarities on analogical thinking: the category assignment approach. Subj. procesos cogn. [online]. 2018, vol.22, n.1, pp.147-165. ISSN 1852-7310.

The present study was aimed at assessing the effect of object similarities in evaluations of the quality of analogies. Two groups of participants received pairs of situations with the task of assessing the extent to which they considered them to be analogous. Whereas in the first group the relation involved in the situations to be compared was highlighted, in the second group comparisons were framed by a schema-governed category. Quality evaluations of the first group were higher when the compared situations involved taxonomically similar objects, but no such effect was found within the second group. In this group, the evaluations of the quality of analogies were affected by object similarities related to central dimensions of the framing schema-governed category. We explain these findings within an alternative perspective on analogical reasoning- the category assignment approach. Implications for this field of research are discussed.

Keywords : Analogy; Similarity; Schema-governed category.

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