Which term corresponds to the idea that general mental skills include transfer, simplification, generalization, restructuring, and automatization?

• A. Declarative Knowledge
• B. Transfer
• C. Information Processing Model
• D. Generalization

Answer: (C)

Information Processing Model explains how learners handle information and develop cognitive skills through stages of attention, encoding, processing, and automation. It captures how general mental skills emerge and become efficient: transfer allows strategies to be applied to new tasks, simplification and chunking reduce cognitive load, generalization extends learned approaches to different contexts, restructuring changes how problems are tackled, and automatization makes routines automatic with practice. These processes collectively illustrate how thinking becomes more flexible and efficient under a single framework.