Experiments suggest that task complexity may be a major variable in learning transfer. Hebb's view that adults will have already gained maximum benefit from transfer early in life may only hold for simple or oft-used processes. Transfer seems to be indirectly rather than directly a function of early development, for to the young organism all experiences tend to be complex and unfamiliar.
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