Which of the following is an example of positive transfer of learning?
AProficiency in algebra helps in understanding calculus. ✓ Correct
BLearning to play the piano makes learning the violin more difficult.
CKnowing how to drive a car makes learning to ride a bicycle more difficult.
DLearning to speak French hinders learning Spanish.
Correct answer: (A) Proficiency in algebra helps in understanding calculus.
Explanation
Positive transfer occurs when prior learning aids new learning, as when proficiency in algebra helps in understanding calculus.
Learning the piano making the violin harder is interference, a negative transfer.
Knowing how to drive a car making cycling harder is one skill obstructing another, negative transfer.
Learning French hindering Spanish is negative transfer between similar languages.
Algebra and calculus share concepts and procedures, so the earlier learning smooths the later.
Charles Judd argued that transfer improves when the learner understands the shared underlying principle.
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