Reasoning about curvilinear motion: Using principles or analogy |
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Authors: | Richard Catrambone Caren M. Jones John Jonides Colleen Seifert |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 30332, Atlanta, GA 2. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 3. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Abstract: | People possess implicit theories about the motion of objects, theories that are often incorrect. When asked to predict the path of an object emerging from a curved tube, for example, people often say that the object will continue to follow a curved path. However, when solving a problem that reminds them of a familiar previous instance, people often reason by analogy to the instance. In this study, we show that a previous instance must be very superficially similar to a problem in order to be used as an analogy; otherwise, people will use their implicit theories as the basis of their reasoning. |
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