Similarity And Analogical Reasoning (Hardcover, 1st)

Preface; Similarity and analogical reasoning: a synthesis Stella Vosniadou and Andrew Ortony; Part I. Similarity and the Structure of Concepts: 1. Similarity, typicality, and categorization Lance J. Rips; 2. Similarity and decision making Edward E. Smith and Daniel N. Osherson; 3. Intraconcept similarity and its implications for interconcept similarity Lawrence W. Barsalou; 4. Two-tiered concept meaning, inferential matching, and conceptual cohesiveness Ryszard S. Michalski; 5. From global similarities to kinds of similarities: the construction of dimensions in development Linda B. Smith; 6. Comments on Part I. Psychological essentialism Douglas Medin and Andrew Ortony; Part II. Analogical Reasoning: 7. The mechanisms of analogical learning Dedre Genter; 8. A computational model of analogical problem solving Keith J. Holyoak and Paul R. Thagard; 9. Use of analogy in production system architecture John R. Anderson and Ross Thompson; 10. Toward a microstructural account of human reasoning David E. Rumelhart; 11. Analogy and the exercise of creativity Philip N. Johnson-Laird; 12. Comments on Part II. Levels of description in information-processing theories of analogy Stephen E. Palmer; 13. Comments on Part II. The role of explanation in analogy; or, the curse of an alluring name Gerald Dejong; Part III. Similarity and Analogy in Development, Learning and Instruction: 14. Analogical learning and transfer: what develops? Ann L. Brown; 15. Analogical reasoning as a mechanism in knowledge acquisition: a developmental perspective Stella Vosniadou; 16. Remindings in learning and instruction Brian H. Ross; 17. New approaches to instruction: because wisdom can't be told John D. Bransford, Jeffery J. Franks, Nancy J. Vye and Robert Sherwood; 18. Multiple analogies for complex concepts: antidotes for analogy-induced misconception in advanced knowledge acquisition Rand J. Spiro, Paul J. Feltovich, Richard L. Coulson and Daniel K. Anderson; 19. Comments on Part III. The activation and acquisition of knowledge William F. Brewer; Afterword Allan Collins and Mark Burstein; Name index; Subject index.