Explanation

…The conversation considers explanation, scientific skills, realism and metaphors, and how the account applies to understanding in humans and machines.

…and examining analogy use in parental explanations. Study 1 found that parents used analogy spontaneously in their explanations, despite no prompt nor mention of analogy in the instruction. Study 2 found that these analogical explanations were rated highly by parents, schoolteachers, and university stude