Define transfer.
Explain how transfer can be measured in terms of speed of learning.
Distinguish between near and far transfer.
Distinguish between specific and general transfer.
Explain Salomon and Perkins' low road and high road transfer.
Distinguish between positive and negative transfer.
Explain the relationships among transfer, analogy, and problem solving.
Explain what is meant by a "proposition" in the information processing approach.
Describe the predicate and the argument part of a proposition.
Distinguish between a proposition that expresses an attribute versus a relation.
Distinguish between a proposition that expresses a first order relation versus a higher order relation.
Provide an example of a simple proportional analogy.
Using propositional notation, show that what makes your example an analogy is that there are similar relations but dissimilar attributes.
Describe a simple "Match to sample task" and a transfer test for the simple match to sample task.
Using propositional notation, show that accomplishing a simple match to sample task, even a transfer test version, does not provide evidence for an explicit mental representation of a relation.
Describe a "Paired match to sample task" and a transfer test for the paired match to sample task.
Using propositional notation, show that accomplishing the paired match to sample task, even a transfer test version, provides evidence for an explicit representation of a relation, but still does not provide evidence for an explicit mental representation of the "similarity" of the relations.
Explain why an explicit mental representation of the similarity of two relations would be an explicit mental representation of a second order relation.
Explain what kind of a task would have to be accomplished in order to provide evidence for an explicit mental representation of a second order relation.
Explain whether, and under what circumstances, non-human animals can accomplish the simple match to sample task, the paired match to sample task, and the double paired match to sample task.
Explain the advance in animal evolution that may account for the ability to explicitly mentally represent a relation, not just an attribute.
Compare the cognitive abilities in regard to language, problem solving, and analogical reasoning, of chimpanzees and humans.
Name the part of the brain that is more developed in humans than in chimpanzees and is also implicated by neuroimaging studies in the processing of multiple relations, a mental task that is necessary for abstract analogical thinking.