Conceptual Foundation of Transfer Research
The cognitive shift in psychology encouraged the research of mental forms and processes engaged in learning and transfer rather than the simple modification of overt reproductional behavior; a change in viewpoint that the early Gestalt psychologists and constructivists such as Köhler, Wertheimer, or Piaget had already propagated for a couple of decades. The investigation of cognitive dimensions in transfer quickly became the major driver of research across applied domains and cognitive transfer emerged in many ways as the quintessential view of transfer in general.
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