TRANSFER OF TRAINING

I. (noun)

Meaning:

Application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation

Synonyms:

carry-over; transfer; transfer of training

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("transfer of training" is a kind of...):

acquisition; learning (the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transfer of training"):

generalisation; generalization; stimulus generalisation; stimulus generalization ((psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus)