A central goal of cognitive science is to develop a general theory of transfer to explain how
people use and apply their prior knowledge to solve new problems. Previous work has …

Abstract Knowledge transfer is critical to successfully solving novel problems and performing
new tasks. Several theories have been proposed to account for how, when, and why transfer …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the interrelationships between task structure,
encoding and retrieval processes, and the prior knowledge of the learner, as these factors …

Conceptual change involves building new knowledge. Changes can be small and local, like
an individual's realization that whales are mammals, not fish (Chi, Slotta, & De Leeuw …

This chapter reviews some history of psychological work on transfer and then discusses
current work that suggests the kind of knowledge that may transfer most often. The transfer of …

We propose a novel theoretical framework for knowledge transfer that consists of
constructing a representation of context, generating a solution, and evaluating whether the …

People's ability to recall and use prior experience when faced with current problems is
surprisingly limited. We suggest that one reason is that information is often encoded in a …

Five experiments investigated transfer from multiple analogs to a superficially dissimilar
target problem. When subjects explicitly compared the analogs and then immediately …

When we encounter a new problem, we are often reminded of similar problems solved
earlier and may use the solution procedure from an old problem to solve a new one. Such …

The dominant theory of transfer of training is a theory of" common elements" based on
Anderson′ s ACT* theory of skill acquisition (Singley & Anderson, 1989). In this theory, the …