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The Relationship between Degree of Original Learning and Degree of Transfer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Harold Gulliksen
Harold Gulliksen*
Affiliation:
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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It has been repeatedly demonstrated that, in a learning situation involving a positive and a negative stimulus, the organism is frequently reacting to the relationship between stimuli rather than to the absolute characteristics of the positive or negative stimulus. For example, if in the original training series an animal has learned to react positively to a ten and negatively to a five centimeter circle, he w,ill, in the majority of trials, when confronted with a ten and a twenty centimeter circle, react positively to the twenty centimeter circle, that is, the larger of the two, and negatively to the ten centimeter circle which was formerly the positive stimulus. This is termed transposition of the relationship greater than from the training or original learning situation to the test or transposition situation.

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Original Paper
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Psychometrika , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , March 1936 , pp. 37 - 43
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Copyright © 1936 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

*

My special thanks and appreciation are extended to Dr. Martin L. Reymert, the Director of the Mooseheart Laboratory for Child Research, for his encouragement in this work, and for furnishing the facilities for the experimental work.

†

See bibliographical references in Klüver, (3).

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