ProfEd 04: Cognitive Perspective Gestalt Psychology

TRANSFER OF
LEARNING
Transfer of learning happens when learning in one
context or with one set of materials affects performance in
another context or with other related materials.

Simply put, it is applying to another situation what was

previously learned.

Transfer is a very significant concept in education and

learning theory because most of those concerned in
education aim to achieve transfer.

TYPES OF
.

TRANSFER
Positive transfer.

Positive transfer occurs when learning in one context

improves performance in some other context.

Negative transfer.

Negative transfer occurs when learning in one context

impacts negatively on performance in another. For example,
learners commonly assimilate a new language's phonetics to
crude approximations in their native tongue and use word
orders carried over from their native tongue.

Near transfer.

Near transfer refers to transfer between very similar

contexts. This is also referred to as specific transfer.

Far transfer.

Far transfer refers to transfer between contexts that, on

appearance, seem remote and alien to one another. This is
also called general transfer.

Conditions and Principles of

Transfer