Three kinds of transfer in a problem-solving task

This study used a factorial design to assess 3 kinds of transfer effects: an effect associated with cue repetition, a learning-to-learn effect, and a warm-up effect. The importance of using controls when studying each of these effects was demonstrated by the results. The greatest transfer effect was...

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Published in:Journal of educational psychology 1965-04, Vol.56 (2), p.73-80
Main Author: Mattson, Dale E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Human
Humans
Learning
Old Medline
Problem Solving
Transfer (Learning)
Transfer (Psychology)
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Summary:This study used a factorial design to assess 3 kinds of transfer effects: an effect associated with cue repetition, a learning-to-learn effect, and a warm-up effect. The importance of using controls when studying each of these effects was demonstrated by the results. The greatest transfer effect was that attributed to warm up. The next largest was a learning-to-learn effect. When error scores were used as a measure of learning, no significant effect was found for cue repetition after both warm-up and learning-to-learn effects were eliminated. A 2nd major objective was to evaluate the usefulness of a novel method of analyzing responses as a means of identifying mediational processes of Ss. The method proved to be useful in this study and appears to have a useful application in other similar studies. (18 ref.)
ISSN:0022-0663
1939-2176
DOI:10.1037/h0021758