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The Relationship Between Amount Of Training And Performance On A New Task, Jacinta Avril Tan
The Relationship Between Amount Of Training And Performance On A New Task, Jacinta Avril Tan
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This paper was designed to examine the relationship between training and transfer tasks and performance on these tasks whereby training can be used to predict transfer. Previous research has assumed that performance of an established task should extrapolate the power function of learning. That is, performance of an established skill in a new domain will continue to improve at the same rate with practice as if there was no change in the domain. 60 participants were recruited from the University of Edith Cowan and were randomly assigned to one of three conditions; I 0 block condition, 20 block condition, or …