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Effects of prior training on schematic concept formation (SCF) were studied in a transfer paradigm employing two types of pretraining experience. One group scaled pairs of patterns from a single schema family; another group encountered the same set of patterns in a task requiring reproduction from memory. Upon transfer to a SCF task, the scaling group exhibited initial superiority. A group that had scaled random stimuli and a group that had no pretraining performed similarly over the first few transfer trials, but at a level below the scaling group and above the reproduction group. Discussion of results centered around a “nonspecific” transfer phenomenon.
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Rankin, W.C., Evans, S.H. Facilitation of schematic concept formation as a function of two within-schema pretraining modes. Psychon Sci 13, 325–326 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03342608
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