Subjects were required to throw at a target under three conditions of varying difficulty. Six groups of 14 subjects were used, each group receiving one of the six possible orders of presentation of the three conditions. Results in terms of mean distance from the "bull " indicated that the three conditions were producing different transfer effects. These could not be adequately explained in terms of stimulus-or response-similarity, and accordingly a tentative hypothesis is put forward in terms of the relative difficulty of the condition presented first, to those presented subsequently. It is suggested that transfer tends to be positive from a relatively difficult initial task to a subsequent -task which is easier, while transfer will tend to be negative from a relatively easy initial task to one which is more difficult.The first of the three conditions presented exerted considerably more powerful transfer effects than the second. Three possibilities as to why this should be so, are outlined.
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