An experimental study of transfer of training in motor learning

Abstract

An experimental group and a control group of trade school girls, equated for IQ, age, trade training, and trade rating, were given an initial and final group of trials at assembling a simple loom. For the experimental subjects there was interpolated training in assembling a safety switch, a task which made use of different materials but involved the same general pattern of motions and total work situation and nearly the same specific motions as those involved in assembling the loom. Some transfer of training occurred for the experimental group, "probably due to the great similarity of the two assemblers." (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)