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Negative transfer relates itself with a detrimental effect of prior experience on the learning of a new task. This is often confused with proactive interference, which concerns itself with a negative affect of prior interference on the recall of a second task.
A common test for negative transfer is the AB-AC list learning paradigm from the verbal learning research of the 1950s and 1960s. In this paradigm, two sets/lists of paired associates are learned in succession. If the second set of associations (List 2) constitutes a modification of the first set of associations (List 1), negative transfer results and thus the learning rate of the second list is slower than the first list.
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References
- Reid, E. (1981) Teaching of Psychology, v8 n2 p109-10
- Postman & Stark (1969). Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 79 (no. 1), pages 168-177.
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