Christie Stella
Department of Psychology, Swarthmore College.
Top Cogn Sci. 2017 Jul;9(3):758-775. doi: 10.1111/tops.12264. Epub 2017 Mar 22.
Analogical reasoning is a foundational tool for human learning, allowing learners to recognize relational structures in new events and domains. Here I sketch some grounds for understanding and applying analogical reasoning in social learning. The social world is fundamentally characterized by relations between people, with common relational structures-such as kinships and social hierarchies-forming social units that dictate social behaviors. Just as young learners use analogical reasoning for learning relational structures in other domains-spatial relations, verbs, relational categories-analogical reasoning ought to be a useful cognitive tool for acquiring social relations and structures.
类比推理是人类学习的一种基本工具，它使学习者能够识别新事件和新领域中的关系结构。在此，我简述一些在社会学习中理解和应用类比推理的依据。社会世界的根本特征在于人与人之间的关系，诸如亲属关系和社会等级制度等常见的关系结构形成了规定社会行为的社会单元。正如年轻学习者使用类比推理来学习其他领域的关系结构——空间关系、动词、关系类别——类比推理应该是获取社会关系和结构的一种有用的认知工具。
