Transfer between two settings for some concept attainment tasks

Studied achievement in and transfer between 2 domains in 2 experiments with a total of 147 undergraduates. The booklet-administered tasks involved conjunctive and disjunctive attribute identifications over the typical concept of attainment domain (geometric) and a domain using medical symptoms. Exp...

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Published in:Journal of educational psychology 1975-12, Vol.67 (6), p.905-908
Main Author: Sowder, Larry
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Concept Formation
Human
Transfer (Learning)
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Summary:Studied achievement in and transfer between 2 domains in 2 experiments with a total of 147 undergraduates. The booklet-administered tasks involved conjunctive and disjunctive attribute identifications over the typical concept of attainment domain (geometric) and a domain using medical symptoms. Exp I, with 90 Ss, showed that tasks in the 2 domains were of like difficulty, that disjunctive tasks were more difficult than conjunctive, and that transfer for disjunctive tasks was different for the 2 domains. Exp II, with 57 Ss, used the tasks of Exp I except that all tasks were presented in written form. The transfer effects of Exp I did not appear, although the other findings recurred. Generalizing results of concept attainment studies across domains is supported, if the modes of presentation are the same.
ISSN:0022-0663
1939-2176
DOI:10.1037/0022-0663.67.6.905