CBSE BoardEnglish MediumSTD 11 HumanitiesPsychologyLearning2 Marks
Question
Differentiate between General transfer and Specific transfer of learning.
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Answer
General Transfer:
This learning predisposes one to learn another task in a better manner.
The learning of one task warms up the learner to learn the next-task more conveniently.
Warm-up is like limbering up the index finger and focusing the eyes on some green object before pressing the trigger to hit the target or the cricketer walks by jumping on one foot then on the other.
After some time, warm-up effect disappears.
While learning a task a person not only learns the task but also develops a mental set for learning other tasks.
Specific Transfer:
Whenever an organism learns something, it consists of a series of stimulus response associations.
Specific transfer means the effect of learning task A on the learning of task B. The learning of A may make the learning of task B easier or more difficult or have no such effect.
Such transfer depend on similarity-dissimilarity between the initial learning task and the second task.
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