Transfer from lower-level to higher-level concept

Improving Comprehension for Jury Instructions

“…This "hierarchical" type of structure has been advocated for use in classroom instruction by educational psychologists in order to make material more comprehensible (Briggs, 1968;Gagne, 1970;Gagne & Brown, 1961;Gagne & Rohwer, 1969). Several researchers have shown the effectiveness of such a method in controlled situations (Eustace, 1969;Lee, 1968) and have shown that the more complex the task is, the smaller and simpler the component steps should be (Naylor & Briggs, 1963). As a result of and in addition to making instructional material more comprehensible, this kind of "hierarchical" segmentation tends to make it more memorable.…”

Separability of coded attributes in logical rule acquisition: A two-process analysis.

“…Although Bourne (1967) showed the effectiveness of a 4 x 1 array sorting, it appears to have been overestimated because of the use of a control with no filler activity. Lee (1968) and White and Lindquist (1974) showed the transfer of coding skill to rule learning and rule learning to coding skill, respectively, using the same relevant dimensions in both training and transfer tasks. It should be mentioned, however, that the transferred 4 X 1 coding skill is of a stimulus-tied nature (or specific, concretebound).…”

Learning set formation and transfer in concept learning: A comparison between attribute identification and rule learning

“…Relative Difficulty of Cj and Dj Concepts Another finding of past studies was that Cj concepts were easier to learn than Dj concepts (Boume & Guy, 1968a;Lee, 1968). To check the relative difficulty of leaming Cj and Dj concepts for a selection paradigm, rather than the reception paradigm of past studies, the choices to criterion mean for the first concept (Cj) of the experimental groups, combined over learning conditions, was compared to the corresponding mean for the first concept (Dj) for the control groups.…”

“…In a related aspect of concept leaming, studies (Baume & Guy, 1968a;Lee, 1968) have demonstrated that positive transfer occurs from simpler to more complex concepts under RL conditions. However, the relative contributions to transfer of rule leaming, attribute identification, and the use of strategies have not been reported.…”