A repeated measures design experiment was done to test people's ability to solve problems that varied in difficulty at three levels (easy,moderate,and hard).The researcher used all possible orders to balance practice effects and so was able to determine that performance on the hard problems was better when they were preceded by a moderate difficulty problem than when they were preceded by an easy problem.Which of the following is a possible explanation of this finding?
A)negative transfer
B)differential transfer
C)progressive error
D)nonlinear practice effects

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Differential transfer, also known as transfer-appropriate processing, suggests that the level of similarity between the tasks and the contexts in which they are performed can affect performance. In this case, the moderate difficulty problem may have provided a better match to the task demands of the hard problem than the easy problem. Therefore, the transfer from the moderate problem to the hard problem was more effective than the transfer from the easy problem.

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