Gick and Holyoak's work on reasoning by analogy showed that ______.
A)subjects were unable to reason from analogy,even if told to do so
B)most subjects could use the "general" story to solve the tumor problem,but only if they were explicitly told to use it
C)subjects could reason from analogy without being explicitly told to do so if they saw two analogous problems to the tumor problem
D)subjects could reason from analogy after either (1)being explicitly told to do so,or (2)having seen two analogous problems,but otherwise they did not spontaneously reason from analogy

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Gick and Holyoak's research demonstrated that subjects could indeed reason from analogy, but typically they did so either when explicitly instructed or after exposure to two analogous problems, indicating that spontaneous analogical reasoning was not common without these conditions.

Gick and Holyoak's Work on Reasoning by Analogy Showed That