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TRANSFER OF TRAINING BETWEEN SPACE‐ORIENTED AND BODY‐ORIENTED CONTROL SITUATIONS
Author(s) -
HAMMERTON M.,
TICKNER A. H.
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1964.tb00929.x
Subject(s) - psychology , task (project management) , set (abstract data type) , control (management) , transfer (computing) , space (punctuation) , cognitive psychology , training (meteorology) , positive transfer , transfer of training , transfer of learning , developmental psychology , physical medicine and rehabilitation , communication , artificial intelligence , computer science , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , physics , management , parallel computing , meteorology , economics , programming language , operating system
An experiment was designed to determine whether skill in a control task is learned as a pattern of body‐oriented limb‐movements, or as a system of space‐oriented relationships. A control task was set up which could be correctly oriented: A, both bodily and spatially; B, bodily but not spatially; C, spatially but not bodily. Four groups of six subjects were used severally to study transfer of training from A to B, B to A, A to C, and C to A. It was found that transfer to condition C was significantly the worst. It is tentatively concluded that this type of skill is learned mainly as a body‐oriented pattern of limb‐movements.