Subjective organization and positive transfer of performance with traumatically brain-injured adults.
Two experiments compared the subjective organization of memory in college students and persons with brain injury using a part-whole list-learning task. Previous research attributed the negative transfer of learning that college students experience in the part-whole task to their inability to reorganize part-list words when learning the whole list. We reasoned that persons with brain injury would not experience negative transfer of learning in the part-whole paradigm because of their limited organizational skills. Experiment 1 replicated the usual negative transfer of learning with college students. Experiment 2 showed that brain-injured participants did not experience the same negative transfer of learning effects during the same task.
Wilbur
Rebecca
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Towson University, Baltimore, MD 21252, USA.
Silver
Rebecca
R
Parente
Rick
R
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D014163:Transfer, Psychology