{"id":7264,"date":"2019-05-22T15:54:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/analogical_reasoning\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:54:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:54:59","slug":"analogical_reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/analogical_reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Analogical reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The process of reasoning on the basis of structural or relational similarity. &nbsp;Much research in cognitive science is devoted to analogical reasoning via, for example, the use of computational modelling.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"abstract_reasoning\">Abstract reasoning<\/a>, <a href=\"analogy_-as_a_trope-\">Analogy (as a trope)<\/a>, <a href=\"cognitive_science\">Cognitive science<\/a>, <a href=\"computational_models\">Computational models<\/a>, <a href=\"fluid_intelligence\">Fluid intelligence<\/a>, <a href=\"logical_reasoning\">Logical reasoning<\/a>, <a href=\"model\">Model<\/a>, <a href=\"reasoning_-psychology-\">Reasoning (psychology)<\/a>, <a href=\"reasoning_-genre_theory-\">Reasoning (genre theory)<\/a>, <a href=\"reasoning_-psychology-\">Reasoning (psychology)<\/a>, Raven&#8217;s Progressive Matrices (RPM)<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The process of reasoning on the basis of structural or relational similarity. &nbsp;Much research in cognitive science is devoted to analogical reasoning via, for example, the use of computational modelling. See Abstract reasoning, Analogy (as a trope), Cognitive science, Computational models, Fluid intelligence, Logical reasoning, Model, Reasoning (psychology), Reasoning (genre theory), Reasoning (psychology), Raven&#8217;s Progressive &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/analogical_reasoning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Analogical reasoning&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}