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| when something you learn in one situation affects how you learn or perform in another situation. |
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1. Positive vs. Negative
2. Vertical vs. Lateral
3. Near vs. Far
4. Specific vs. General |
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when learning in one situation facilitates learning or performance in another situation.
i.e. practice in reading helps with spelling, meaningful learning, and elaboration. |
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when something learned in one situation hinders a person's ability to learn or perform in a second situation.
i.2. people who learn a second language typically apply patterns of speech of their native tongue. |
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a learner acquires new knowledge or skills by building one more basic information and procedures.
i.e. master principles of addition before moving to multiplication. |
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when knowledge of the first topic is helpful but not essential to learning the second one.
i.e. knowledge of French isn't essential for learning Spanish. |
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| involves situations or problems that are similar in both superficial characteristics and underlying relationship. |
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| involves two situations that are similar in one or more underlying relationships but different in their surface features. |
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in which the original learning task and the transfer task overlap in some way.
i.e. near and far transfer |
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| the original task and the transfer task are different in content and structure. |
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| Exercising one's mind to learn more quickly and deal with situation more effectively. |
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| when the two tasks involve some of the same specific stimulus-response associations. |
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| Factors affecting transfer |
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1. Meaningful learning promotes better transfer.
2. The more thoroughly something is learned, the more likely it is to be transferred to a new situation.
3. The more similar two situations are, the more likely it is that something learned in one situation will be applied to the other situation.
4. Principles are more easily transferred than discrete facts.
5. Transfer increases when the cultural environment encourages and expects transfer. |
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