Exam 13: Transfer of Learning

If an experiment is designed to investigate whether bilateral transfer occurs for the non-preferred arm, both arms are involved in the pretests and posttests, but only the ________ arm performs the skill during the practice trials.

Newly learned patterns of coordination can disrupt patterns that were once stable.

The direction of bilateral transfer between two limbs is typically:

If the same amount of bilateral transfer occurs from one limb to the other limb, then it is called ________ bilateral transfer.

The only reason why positive transfer occurs is that the components of the skills or the contexts in which a skill is performed have a high degree of similarity.

Bernstein argued that you would see positive transfer between which two skills?

One characteristic of a skill that typically will lead to negative transfer when it is changed is the ________ structure of a skill.

The amount of bilateral transfer from the preferred to the non-preferred limb is greater than from the non-preferred to the preferred limb.

Which principle would best describe the beneficial effect of practicing a range of different types of tasks on the learning of a novel task?

The only hypothesis developed to explain why bilateral transfer occurs proposes that invariant characteristics of the generalized motor program acquired with the practice of one limb are applied to the performance of the skill with the contralateral limb.

Negative transfer can be expected for which of the following situations?

The cognitive explanation for bilateral transfer proposes that bilateral transfer occurs because the required:

Which of the following is an example of retroactive negative transfer?

One of the reasons for negative transfer is the initial cognitive confusion that occurs when a person must make a different movement in a familiar environmental context.

The brain areas that contribute to learning to learn are likely more similar to those associated with early learning than traditional transfer of learning.

Acquiring a new motor skill can influence the development of non-motor skills.

When you perform a motor skill with your right arm, activity in the same muscles can be detected in your left arm.

Transfer tests in motor learning research do not assess:

Transfer of learning tests provide an effective means of assessing the learning of a skill following practice.

The transfer-appropriate-processing theory suggests that positive transfer is due to similarity of the: