This principle can be applied to a classroom environment as a method of transfer. Transfer according to Ormrod (2013) is the phenomenon in which something a person has learned at one time influences how the person learns or behaves in a subsequent situation. Students use what they have already learned in class and transfer that information to new information. For example, if a student has learned multiplication the next day he or she is taught division, how he or she performs in the first lesson can impact how well he or she learns division the next day. The transfer can be positive or negative. Positive transfer means that the student has successfully transferred the information learned with previous information. However, negative transfer prevents the child from learning a certain performance at a later time