Abstract
Intuitive or commonsense physics concerns physical knowledge that operates in everyday actions, especially in sports and other motor behavior. Intuitive physics typically requires integration of several stimulus factors, a problem to which the theory of information integration may be applied. The hypothesis that the stimulus integrations of intuitive physics follow algebraic rules can be tested with the parallelism theorem and the linear fan theorem of functional measurement. Preliminary results with Galileo's inclined plane and a collision task support the hypothesis of a cognitive algebra of intuitive physics, in agreement with previous results on intuitive mathematics. In this approach, analysis is entirely cognitive, with no essential reliance on physical metrics or physical relations. The problem of learning of intuitive physics is discussed in terms of patterning, both of the response and of the information-reinforcement schedule.
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