Analogical Reasoning in Children

Abstract

many related areas (e.g., in theorising about the cognitive processes in reading develop-ment). If Piaget's conclusions about the rela-tive mental sophistication of analogical rea-soning turn out to be incorrect, then the impli-cations for educational practice are immense, Piaget's conclusions were based on ex-periments using a pictorial version of the standard test for analogical reasoning (used in IQ testing), the 'item analogy'. In item analogies, two items A and B are presented to the child, a third item C is presented, and the child is required to generate a D term that has the same relation to C as B has to A. Sue-cessful generation of a D term requires the

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