Exam 13: Transfer of Learning

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

_______ transfer can be expected if two tasks involve many similar stimulus components.

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

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

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 of the following provides support for the motor control explanation for bilateral transfer?

The dynamic pattern theory of motor control explains bilateral transfer by stating that the learning of a skill involves the learning of dynamics without reference to the limbs involved.

The direction of bilateral transfer between two limbs is typically:

An important characteristic of ________ transfer is that the effect is typically temporary.

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

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

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

According to the generalized motor program theory of motor control,bilateral transfer can be expected because learning a skill results in the creation of an abstract memory representation for an action in which ________ are a parameter of the program.

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

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

The use of a virtual reality device is a good example of transfer of learning based on which of the following explanations?

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.

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

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.

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