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Vol.12 No.2

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The Effects of Working Memory Capacity on the Conceptual Learning by Analogy

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
2000, v.12 no.2, pp.215-226
Ah-Jung Cho (Department of Psychology, Ewha Women's University)
Young-Ai Lee (Department of Psychology, Ewha Women's University)
Cho, A., & Lee, Y. (2000). The Effects of Working Memory Capacity on the Conceptual Learning by Analogy. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 12(2), 215-226.

Abstract

A series of three experiments examined whether working memory capacity influences participants' analogical learning of new scientific concepts. Experiment 1 demonstrated that analogical learning depends on working memory capacity. High-span participants showed better performance in inference problem solving than did low-span participants. Experiment 2 again showed that whereas participants with a high span produced a large analogical learning effect, those with a low span did not. Experiment 3 demonstrated that the latter group produced a large analogical learning effect, given the pictures relevant to the analogical learning condition. These results were discussed in terms of a close relationship between working memory capacity and the analogical mapping process.

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analogy, scientific concept learning, working memory capacity, analogical mapping process
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2000-12-15
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