Learning Physical Domains: Toward a Theoretical Framework.
Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)Published 1 December 1986
Kenneth D. Forbus, Dedre Gentner
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A theoretical framework is presented that is being developed in an attempt to construct a computational account of human learning of physical domains and a learning sequence for physical domains is proposed.
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This paper presents a theoretical framework that is being developed in an attempt to construct a computational account of human learning of physical domains. Qualitative Process theory is used to model portions of people's physical knowledge, and structure-mapping theory is used to characterize the computations that move a learner from one representation to another. The paper outlines the component theories and proposes a learning sequence for physical domains. Keywords: cognitive modelling; qualitative reasoning; analogical reasoning; artificial intelligence.
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