Transfer What You Have Learned About Transfer and Problem Solving

question 62

Essay

Transfer what you have learned about transfer and problem solving to a professional situation in which you might find yourself. More specifically:
a. Using either an educational or therapeutic context, describe a specific idea or principle you might want students or clients to apply outside the educational or therapeutic setting. In particular, describe what information you would want them to learn within the educational or therapeutic context, and how you hope they would transfer it in dealing with the outside world.
b. Explain how your students' or clients' success in transferring this information and/or using it to solve problems might be more or less successful depending on:
(1) How they encode/store the original information, and the extent to which they elaborate on it
(2) How they encode/store the transfer/problem-solving situation, and the extent to which they elaborate on that situation

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Definitions:

Negative Externality

A cost that affects someone who did not choose to incur that cost or participate in the action causing it, often seen in pollution where the public pays the price for private industry actions.

MSC (Marginal Social Cost)

The complete expense incurred by society for the production of one more unit of a good or service, encompassing both individual costs and any external effects.

Marginal Social Cost

The total cost to society of producing an additional unit of a good or service, including both private costs and externalities.

Society

A large group of individuals who live in the same area, share a common culture, norms, and values, and are organized in a cooperative manner.