transfer of training, In psychology, the effect of having learned one activity on an individual’s execution of other activities. Positive transfer occurs when a previously acquired skill enhances one’s performance of a new one. Negative transfer occurs when the previously acquired skill impairs one’s attempt to master the new one.
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