Introduction

Originally published in 1976, this title is an edited volume and reflects the major approaches being taken in structural learning at the time.

Chapter 1

Deals with the basic question of whether competence (knowledge) should be characterized in terms of rules (automata), on the one hand, or associations on the other.

Chapter 2

The bulk of Chapter 2 is devoted to a series of earlier experiments on rule learning by the editor and his associates.

Chapter 3

The two contributions in Chapter 3 deal with graph theoretical models.

Chapter 4

Piagetian models constitute the subject of Chapter 4.

Chapter 5

Chapter 5 deals with attempts to stimulate human behaviour with a computer.

Chapter 6

Chapter 6 ranges over a wide variety of competence models, with particular reference to logic and mathematics.

Chapter 7

In Chapter 7 the editor proposes a new theory of structural learning, together with some empirical results.