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Positive and Negative Analogical Transfer in Problem Solving

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2011-09-30T16:19:17Z

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Alzayat, Ayman

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University of Waterloo

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This thesis has investigated the positive and negative analogical transfer in which we proposed three hypotheses that shed more light on the process of human behaviour in problem solving. We have found that people exhibited both positive and negative analogical transfer in the conducted study. The positive and negative transfer depends on two factor process; search space and type of transformation. This predication was tested in an experiment with four conditions by using matchsticks arithmetic problems. Results have indicated the activation of positive transfer in the problems that share the same search space and type of transformation. On the other hand, negative transfer was activated when the problem search space and type of transformation were different. Results have also indicated, in several comparisons that were made, a simultaneous activation of both positive and negative transfer.

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Analogical Transfer, Problem Solving

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http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6325

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Management Engineering