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1. Distinguish between positive and negative transfer, and give a concrete example of each to illustrate the distinction.

2. Distinguish between general and specific transfer, and give a concrete example of each to illustrate the distinction. Describe the four perspectives of transfer listed below in terms of their views on general and specific transfer:

Formal discipline

Similarity of stimuli and responses

Information processing

Situated learning

3. Describe the roles that the following four factors play in problem solving, and illustrate each factor's role with a concrete example:

Working memory capacity

Encoding processes

Long-term memory retrieval

Metacognition

4. Describe five different things that teachers can do to facilitate students' transfer of what is learned in the classroom to real-world situations and problems.

Transfer what you have learned about transfer and problem solving to a professional situation in which you might find yourself. More specifically:

Using either an educational or therapeutic context, describe a specific idea or principle you might want students or clients to apply outside the educational or therapeutic setting. In particular, describe what information you would want them to learn within the educational or therapeutic context, and how you hope they would transfer it in dealing with the outside world.

5. Explain how your students' or clients' success in transferring this information and/or using it to solve problems might be more or less successful depending on: a. How they encode/store the original information, and the extent to which they elaborate on it, b. How they encode/store the transfer/problem-solving situation, and the extent to which they elaborate on that situation

6. Imagine that you are teaching a course in human learning to future teachers. You want students to transfer what they learn in their class to their own teaching practice. Describe three strategies you might use to help students transfer what they learn in your class.

7. Choose a particular content domain (e.g., math, science, history, English literature) and give two examples that critical thinking in that domain might entail. Your examples should reflect two of the following forms of critical thinking:

Verbal reasoning

Argument analysis

Probabilistic reasoning

Hypothesis testing

8. Describe three different strategies you might use to encourage students to engage in critical thinking about a topic. Illustrate each strategy with a concrete example.