Where a test requires breaking previously formed bonds and forming new ones, training produces interference rather than transfer¶
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q2 i? Training in the Opposites test interfered with the Adjective-Noun test, and training in Addition interfered with Multiplication, when the test required breaking trained bonds. → Poffenberger 1915
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Poffenberger 1915¶
Poffenberger, A. T., Jr. (1915). The influence of improvement in one simple mental process upon other related processes. The Journal of Educational Psychology, 6(8), 459-474. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0075269
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Controlled training experiment: after 100 addition trials, the trained group gained 11.4 seconds on multiplication while controls gained 29.7, an 18.3-second interference about 3 times its probable error. The Opposites-Adjective-Noun comparison showed a significant trained-control difference in the same direction.
"Taking the gain of the control group as typical of untrained subjects, we find an interference effect from the training amounting to 18.3 seconds. The probable error of this difference is 6.5, making the difference about 3 times its P. E."
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Related Claims¶
- Where there are no identical bonds between stimulus and response in two processes, training in one produces neither transfer nor interference in the other — a broader claim this one bears on
- Training in cancellation of 3 and 5 produced neither transfer nor interference on cancellation of groups containing 4 and 7 — related
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Where a test requires breaking previously formed bonds and forming new ones, training produces interference rather than transfer |
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Where a test requires breaking previously formed bonds and forming new ones, training produces interference rather than transfer |
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