Actor Theory and the Transfer of Cognitive Skills

Theory argues that more abstract, higher level skills should transfer better between situations because the underlying productions are preserved. The types of puzzles used to test actar theory tend to not require a lot of background knowledge since the declarative part of learning is relatively quick. For knowledge rich domains like law or son, there may be different patterns of transfer as properly activating theDeclarative memory system becomes the most time consuming part of acquiring a skill.