A child spends a great deal of time at the local roller rink and becomes proficient at roller-skating. One winter the child puts on a pair of ice skates, finds a frozen pond, and never having ice-skated before, proceeds to ice-skate with seemingly little effort. This is an example of
A) high-road transfer.
B) general transfer.
C) low-road transfer.
D) positive transfer.

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Low-road transfer occurs when skills learned in one context are automatically applied to a similar context without much conscious thought, as in the transition from roller-skating to ice-skating.

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