Category Assignment Theory on Analogical Thinking: a Challenge to Structure Mapping Theory
The dominant theory of analogical thinking since the 1980s is the structure mapping theory. In this paper, a new theory about reasoning by analogy is presented: the category assignment theory. It is argued that this theory is able to explain better than the first how a specific type of analogies are...
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Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Psicología y Psicopedagogía
2022-10-01
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| Series: | Revista de Psicología |
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| Online Access: | https://erevistas.uca.edu.ar/index.php/RPSI/article/view/4236 |