Promoting interdomain analogical transfer: When creating a problem helps to solve a problem.
Research on analogical thinking has devised several ways of promoting an abstract encoding of base analogs, thus rendering them more retrievable during later encounters with similar situations lacking surface similarities. Recent studies have begun to explore ways of facilitating transfer at retriev...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 221 - 233 |
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