The Transduction Mechanism In Analogical Reasoning

In the past study, analogy somehow be a comparative analogism, or be a machining process of reasoning psychology, or even be a transfer process of problem solving and learning. All these made the study of analogy stay in various kinds. However, psychological process mechanism of analogical reasoning, which is the core of creativity thinking, is the original intention of investigating analogical in psychology. Although the achievement of analogy reasoning both in home and abroad were abundant, a traditional understanding of analogy fails to understand this unique thinking mechanism.This study differs analogy from a narrow sense analogy a broad sense analogy. We think the characteristics of the narrow sense analogy will be in accord with creativity thinking. The meaning of the narrow sense analogy is the reason by analogy. It is a course that to discover the mutual essence relationship between two dissimilarity things by analogical compare, and producing innovative content fruit by the activity of science thinking after comparison. The narrow sense analogy emphasizes particularly on quite difficulty science discover and innovative activity. That is a further high level cognitive capability and the thinker's activity from known to unknown requiring more cognitive endeavor. The problems of science discovery and innovative activity were complicated and illegibility. Even we can discover the core relation, specific ability still needed. Such ability will include the analogical transduction ability that we should pay more attention.According to the above theory assumption, this research classifies the transduction process involving in the course of analogical reasoning. Upon classification, we did the experimental investigation of three type of transduction including mapping transduction, reasoning process transduction, and relational structure transductionThe result of mapping transduction shows:1) the second group problem is more difficult than the first group problem in Reven advanced reasoning exam. The score of the transduction problem is lower than the score of the nontransduction problem. The design effect of transduction problem is obvious, the difficulty of the problem will not influence the transduction process.2)mapping transduction based on the capability is existed. It is related with the ability of the analysis induce in middling degree.The result of reasoning process transduction shows:1) the reasoning process of the hypothesis inspection puts up the process of reasoning process.2) the statement form of the problem is the same as the statement form of the exemplar problem that can reduce the difficulty of the reasoning process and facilitate the performance of the reasoning process.3) the schema induction of many exemplar problems can facilitate the performance of the isomorphism problems, but will restrain the performance of the hetero-morphism problems.The result of the transduction relational structure shows:1) people can retrieve by the relational structure in ordinary life, but the function of the superficial similarity is still important.2) the affective factors of standpoint preference will influence the analogy production.3) the two conditions of opposition and approval will have a different performance in different experimental state.4) the subject of fuzzy structure transduction has more chance producing the nullity analog, but the subject of clear structure transduction has more chance producing effective analog.The meaning of the study is:1) We put forward the concept of the narrow sense analogy and distinguish the analogical reasoning in science discovery and innovation thinking from the other concept of the broad sense of analogy, such as:analogical transfer, analogism.2) We classify the transduction process in analogical reasoning process mechanism.3) We find the capability of the mapping transduction through the experimental study.4) A series of the experimental results will have practical instructive sense in the education and the cultivation of innovative thinking.