Learning Physical Domains: Toward a Theoretical Framework.
Kenneth D. Forbus, Dedre Gentner · 1986
This chapter 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 Structural Mapping theory is used to characterize the computations that move a learner from one representation to another. The chapter outlines the component theories and proposes a learning sequence for physical domains.