Transfer of strategic task components across unique tasks that share some common structures.
| Autor: | Longman CS; University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, UK.; University of Exeter, Exeter, UK., Milton F; University of Exeter, Exeter, UK., Wills AJ; University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) [Q J Exp Psychol (Hove)] 2024 Oct; Vol. 77 (10), pp. 2000-2022. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jan 27. |
| DOI: | 10.1177/17470218231221046 |
| Abstrakt: | Flexible, adaptive behaviour depends on the application of prior learning to novel contexts (transfer). Transfer can take many forms, but the focus of the present study was on "task schemas"-learning strategies that guide the earliest stages of engaging in a novel task. The central aim was to examine the architecture of task schemas and determine whether strategic task components can expedite learning novel tasks that share some structural components with the training tasks. Groups of participants across two experiments were exposed to different training regimes centred around multiple unique tasks that shared some/all/none of the structural task components (the kinds of stimuli, classifications, and/or responses) but none of the surface features (the specific stimuli, classifications, and/or responses) with the test task (a dot-pattern classification task). Initial test performance was improved (to a degree) in all groups relative to a control group whose training did not include any of the structural components relevant to the test task. The strongest evidence of transfer was found in the motoric, perceptual + categorization , and full schema training groups. This observation indicates that training with some (or all) strategic task components expedited learning of a novel task that shared those components. That is, task schemas were found to be componential and were able to expedite learning a novel task where similar (learning) strategies could be applied to specific elements of the test task. Competing Interests: Declaration of conflicting interestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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