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Transfer of learning is the use of a knowledge or skill that you have learned before is being used in a different situation. Such as knowing how to drive a car, those same skills can be used to drive a truck or bigger automobile.

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In Armenia, they made learning chess mandatory because they believed that they will become more intelligent and be able to problem solve not only in chess, but also in other subjects.

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In the reading they state that far transfer develops general skills but also crucial impacts character traits such as intelligence, memory, alertness, and creativity.

Though creativity is not a skill, it cannot be taught or learned. Also memory is a trait that cannot be learned but it could be trained or improved.

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Research shows that learning how to play chess has a positive effect on student learning but it is only confined to mathematics. If you don't have the requisite knowledge to asses how to play chess then you won't be able to get far in it.

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There were at least 3 studies that were named in the reading and they found the programming has no link to ability to problem solve. There is little to no effect to learn how to program, it is just useful to know.

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In the reading, the idea that music has a positive effect on executive functioning is nothing new, although far from how long does the affect last. It is known that people who play or understand music are very intelligent but that is all that is known.

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Latin is a languages of knowledge and known as the language of the elite and it was believe to be the center of all languages. In the study done, there is no link to learning Latin that it makes it easier to learn many other languages. There was acutely evidence against Latin and how knowing other different languages can be more of a help.

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In the end of the reading, their final conclusion is that there is no evidence whatsoever for far transfer. It is clear the the level of reliable evidence decreases in relations to the quality of research. Far transfer doesn't seem to have concreate evidence that it does help with other skills.

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Near transfer is the ability to apply a skill or knowledge learned in one situation to another, very similar situation. It can such as applying what you learned in your math class about multiplying and then apply what you learned onto a worksheet.

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Far transfer is easier in relation to the extent that there are more similar or identical elements between what has already been learned and what needs to be learned in the future. It can be such as knowing how to drive a car makes it easier when you're going to drive a truck.