Natalie is trying to balance a tall stack of books, but they keep falling. She remembers that the best way to create a block tower is to place the larger blocks at the bottom and the smaller blocks on the top, so she puts all of the large books on her desk first and then places the smaller books on top of them. Information- processing theorists would point out that Natalie has used _____to solve her problem.

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Natalie used analogical reasoning by applying a known strategy (stacking larger blocks at the bottom) to a new but similar problem (stacking books).

Natalie Is Trying to Balance a Tall Stack of Books