Themainpointisthatinordertodiscernthegeneralprincipletobeusedinthesecondproblem,-learningsomethinginSituationA (discerningageneralprinciple) andusingitinSituationB— (1988) demonstrated,'spointofview,thiscanbeseenasanexampleoflocalconstructionofthesolution (i.e.,thesolutiondoesnotexistpriortotheproblembeingsolved).Fromthepointofviewofmyownlineofreasoning, (atleasttwo) ,inafollow-upoftheirstudy,GickandHolyoak (1983) showedthatalthoughlearnershadlittlesuccessinabstracting (orseparating) generalizedsolutionsfromsinglespecificinstances,,ofcourse,,.
PreparationforFutureLearning
Asstated,thisarticleisintendedtochallengethedoctrineofsameness,whichistheideathatwhenlearnersprofitinanewsituationfromwhattheyhavelearnedinanearliersituation, (e.g.,Bransford ＆ Schwartz,1999;Schwartz ＆ Bransford,1988).Inthesestudiestheobjectofresearchistheeffectoflearninginonesituationonlearninginasecondsituationand,throughthat,,butthepreparationforfuturelearningstudieshaveuniquefeaturesthatareessentialtothepointIwanttomake.
,twocomparablegroupsofstudentstrytolearnwhatisnominallythesamethingundertwodifferentconditions,,theyareintransferfromthetwodifferentconditionsforlearningtothesameconditionforappraisal.
