Module 12: Transfer of Skills and Knowledge Flashcards
Transfer
The influence of prior knowledge, skills, strategies, or principles on new learning
Postive Transfer
Previous learning facilitates learning on new tasks
Negative Transfer
Previous learning hinders learning on new tasks
Zero transfer
Previous learning has no effect on current learning
Doctrine of formal discipline
Study of “core” subjects facilitates learning for other subjects
Theory of identical elements
Transfer will occur between two learning tasks if the new skill/behavior contains elements that are identical to a skill/behavior from the original task
Low-road transfer
Spontaneous, automatic transfer of highly practiced skills, with little need for reflective thinking
Automaticity
When a person performs a skill very quickly, very accuratley, and with little attention/cognitive load.
High-road transfer
An individual purposely and consiously applies general knowledge, a strategy, or a prinicple learned previously is applied in a new situation
Mindful abstraction
Retrieving meaningful information and applying it to a new learning context
Problem-solving transfer
A general strategy/principle we learned solving a previous problem
Analogical transfer
Creating/using an existing analogy to aid in understanding a new concept
Backward-reaching transfer
Occurs when an individual delibratley looks for strategies/principles learned in the past to solve a current problem
Rote memorization
memorizing without understanding
Reflective practice
developing a conceptual understanding
Delibrate practice
an intrinsic motivation to engage on extensive, focused, long-term repetition with the goal of learning the skill and improving performance.
near transfer
applying prior knowledge to a new situation that is similair to the learning context
Far transfer
applying prior knowledge to a context that different form the learning context
