What Is the Current Status of Research on Transfer of Training

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Multiple Choice

What is the current status of research on transfer of training through brain extracts?

• A) It is generally accepted that this works under a variety of conditions.
• B) Transfer succeeds only in planaria: it has never worked with any other species.
• C) It has been revealed that claims of such a phenomenon were based on fraud.
• D) Research ended without a conclusion because the phenomenon was difficult to replicate.

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Definitions:

Expected Cell Counts

In chi-squared tests, these refer to the theoretically predicted frequencies of observations in the categories of a contingency table under the null hypothesis.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution or in the calculation after estimating certain parameters.

Contingency Table

A table used to display the frequency distribution of variables and analyze the relationship between categorical variables.

Null Hypothesis

A statistical hypothesis that assumes no significant difference or effect and serves as the default or starting assumption in hypothesis testing.