Which One of the Following Illustrates Positive Transfer

question 42

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following illustrates positive transfer?

• A) Robert is trying to learn the spelling of the word shepherd. He remembers that he learned to spell tomcat by putting two words together and so writes "sheepherd."
• B) Vince notices that rules of grammar are not always the same in English and Japanese.
• C) Zelda uses the formula for calculating the area of a circle when she wants to know how much bigger a 10-inch pizza is than a 7-inch pizza.
• D) David is trying to learn to program a computer. He reads his programming manual but is confused by some of its instructions.

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