relational primacy hypothesis

the hypothesis that analogical thinking is available early in infancy; that is, young infants can comprehend or solve a problem in one event by comparing it with another. See also relational shift.

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February 28th 2025

common metric

a unit or scale of measurement that is applied to data from different sources. In a meta-analysis, for instance, the results from multiple studies may need to be placed on a common metric so that they may be meaningfully compared.