Psychological Development and Education ›› 2011, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (2): 126-132.

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Analogical Reasoning on Condition of Conflict between Associative System and Rule-Based System among 3～5 years Infants

Gu Ben-bai, FENG Ting-yong, YUAN Wen-ping, MA Xiao-qing   

  1. The Congitive and Personality Key Lab of the Education Ministry, School of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715
  • Online:2011-03-15 Published:2011-03-15

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Abstract: With classical analogical task,we explore analogical reasoning under the condition of conflict between association and rule among 3～5 year infants.The result indicates:(1) Infants' one-dimension analogical reasoning ability speedly enhances from 3 to 4 years old,but slightly enhances from 4 to 5 years old.In two-dimension analogical reasoning,3～5 years infants have a low level of analogical reasoning ability.(2) When associative system and rule-based system conflicts in the process of analogical reasoning,two systems are activated at the same time and compete with each other.Associative system and rule-based system balance in one-dimension analogical reasoning task.In two-dimension analogical reasoning task,infants are more likely to make inference based on associative system,and less likely to use rule-based system.Our result implies that the associative system plays an important role in 3～5 years infants' analogical reasoning.

Key words: Infants, analogical reasoning, associative system and rule based system, dimension

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  • B844.1
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