A Child Spends a Great Deal of Time at the Local

question 73

Multiple Choice

A child spends a great deal of time at the local roller rink and becomes proficient at roller-skating. One winter the child puts on a pair of ice skates, finds a frozen pond, and never having ice-skated before, proceeds to ice-skate with seemingly little effort. This is an example of

• A) high-road transfer.
• B) general transfer.
• C) low-road transfer.
• D) positive transfer.

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