Exam 13: Transfer of Learning

We can historically trace the view that transfer occurs because of the similar characteristics of two skills to Thorndike's ________ theory.

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

The use of Gentile's taxonomy of motor skills in a physical rehabilitation situation provides a good example of how the transfer of learning principle can be implemented in a skill-training situation.

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

Degree of positive transfer is related to the:

The theory states that the primary reason for positive transfer between two motor skills is the similarity of the cognitive processes required by the skills.

Performance of a new experience that is hindered by experience with a previous skill is an example of ________ transfer.

Bilateral transfer can be related to the concept of the generalized motor program (GMP)because muscle selection in performing a skill is:

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.

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.

Transfer tests in motor learning research do not assess performance of:

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