Which term refers to the idea that learning preserves aspects of the context and thinking processes present during learning?

• A. Transfer-appropriate processing
• B. Noticing
• C. Noticing Hypothesis
• D. Input Processing

Answer: (A)

Transfer-appropriate processing says that how you learn is important to how you retrieve later—the best performance comes when the mental processes used during encoding match the ones needed at retrieval. If you study by working through problems in the same way you’ll be asked to think on the test, you preserve aspects of both the context and the thinking strategies you used while learning, making it easier to recall or apply what you learned. Noticing is about paying attention to cues, Noticing Hypothesis relates to how readers notice features in text, and Input Processing focuses on how learners extract meaning from input; none of these center on the match between encoding and retrieval processes in the same way.