Science and Technology Production
Article
Authorship
TRENCH, JUAN MAXIMO
;
LAURA MARTINEZ FRONTERA
;
LEANDRO E. RIVAS
Date
2024
Publishing House and Editing Place
PSYCHOLOGY PRESS
Magazine
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
PSYCHOLOGY PRESS
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Even though spontaneous retrieval of analogous cases lacking surface similarity with a target situation typically requiresachieving an abstract representation of the target situation, recent studies on analogical argumentation suggest thatthe deliberate disposition to search for analogous cases in long-term memory (LTM) suffices to increase cross-domainretrieval significantly. However, a limitation of these studies concerns the impossibility to determine whether theanalogous situations reported...
Even though spontaneous retrieval of analogous cases lacking surface similarity with a target situation typically requiresachieving an abstract representation of the target situation, recent studies on analogical argumentation suggest thatthe deliberate disposition to search for analogous cases in long-term memory (LTM) suffices to increase cross-domainretrieval significantly. However, a limitation of these studies concerns the impossibility to determine whether theanalogous situations reported were invented rather than retrieved, and whether there were instances of analogicalretrieval that were not reflected in participants’ arguments. To overcome these shortcomings, Experiment 1 resorted toa traditional transfer paradigm where a base analogue is learned prior to the presentation of the target situation duringa contextually-separated phase. Results confirmed that an explicit indication to base persuasive arguments on analogoussituations increases distant retrieval as compared to a baseline condition where the instruction to generate persuasivearguments did not include an indication to think of analogous cases. Experiment 2 generalised the retrieval advantageof voluntary search to the activity of generating explanatory hypotheses for a counterintuitive phenomenon, a moreprototypical variety of knowledge transfer that has been somewhat overlooked within analogy research. The theoreticaland educational implications of the present findings are discussed.
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Key Words
ABSTRACTIONTRANSFERANALOGICAL RETRIEVALHYPOTHESIS GENERATIONARGUMENTATION