Cognitive Development, Analogy and Derived Relations If the current model of analogical reasoning has some validity, equivalence-equivalence tests should produce outcomes similar to those observed with traditional tests of analogical reasoning Adults and older children readily demonstrate analogical reasoning Young children (4-5 year olds) do so less readily, and when they do some researchers have argued that the performances are primarily associative or thematic rather than analogical Recent research has examined developmental differences in equivalence-equivalence responding in order to assess the validity of the model
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