Comparison Facilitates Children's Learning Of Names For Parts

Comparison is an important factor which influences human's cognition. In analogy, comparison is understood as process which is structure's aligning and mapping. Comparison as an effective learning mechanism has been demonstrated by many studies. This study used structure-mapping theory as a theory framework for discussing comparison, and continued to explore comparison's use of children's learning names for parts , and demonstrated superficial similarity and progressive alignment effect's influence at the base of prior's studies. This study consisted of three parts.The first part firstly introduced the indication of comparison from comparison's compute model and then introduced prior's classic studies .The second part did this study at the base of prior studies. This part has three experiments.Experiment 1 was aimed to examine whether superficial similarity was a factor which influenced children learning words, children's ability of understanding relation became strong with the increase of age, and children applied comparison in the process of learning names for parts. The results demonstrated that superficial similarity was a factor of influencing children's words'study, children's ability of understanding relation became stronger with the growth of age, and children applied comparison in the process of learning names for parts.Experiment 2 based on the Experiment 1 modified experiment materials, in order to remove practice effect, similarity was varied between-subject instead of within-subject, further demonstrated that children applied comparison in the process of learning names for parts. As predicted, children applied comparison in the process of learning names for parts.Experiment 3 based on the Experiment 2 modified experiment materials to demonstrate if the progressive alignment effect existed in children's learning words. As previous predicted, a progressive alignment effect promoted children's learning words.The third part summarized studies'deficiency and future trends were discussed.