A learner learns to bake a cake in school and applies the knowledge to bake a cake at home. This is a type of which transfer of learning?

Applying cake-baking learnt at school to bake a cake at home is horizontal transfer, moving a skill across similar situations at the same level.

Vertical transfer applies simpler learning to more advanced tasks, moving up a level.

Zero transfer means prior learning has no effect on the new task.

Negative transfer is when old learning hinders new learning.

Horizontal transfer is also called lateral transfer.

The idea of transfer traces to Thorndike's theory of identical elements.