explain briefly the meaning of bilateral transfer of learnin

explain briefly the meaning of bilateral transfer of learning?

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BILATERAL TRANSFER OF LEARNING :-

A transfer of skills learned from one side of the body to the other. Although the skill was originally learned and used on one side of the body, the other side of it has the potential to learn this same skill.

From many experiments it appeared clear that skill acquired in a particular task by practice on one hand can often be carried over to the other hand. This process is known as Bilateral transfer.

Transfer of learning is usually described as the process and the effective extent to which past experiences (also referred to as the transfer source) affect learning and performance in a new situation. However, there remains controversy as to how transfer of learning should be conceptualized and explained, what its prevalence is, what its relation is to learning in general, and whether it exists at all. There are a wide variety of viewpoints and theoretical frameworks apparent in the literature, which can be categorized as: