The transfer of learning from one situation to another that is conscious and effortful is known as:

High-road transfer is the conscious and effortful transfer of learning from one situation to another through deliberate abstraction of a principle.

Near transfer refers to transfer between closely similar situations, defined by similarity of context rather than by mental effort.

Low-road transfer is automatic and spontaneous, triggered by well-practised skills in similar settings, the opposite of effortful.

Far transfer refers to transfer across very different contexts, defined by distance rather than by conscious effort.

High-road transfer relies on mindful abstraction and reflective application of the underlying rule.

Salomon and Perkins drew the high-road versus low-road distinction in transfer of learning.