germane cognitive load

And germane cognitive load refers to the work put into creating a permanent store of knowledge, or a schema.

Germane cognitive load is that load devoted to the processing, construction and automation of schemas.

This theory differentiates between three types of cognitive load: intrinsic cognitive load, germane cognitive load, and extraneous cognitive load.

Germane cognitive load is the mental effort required to process the task's information, make sense of it, and access and/or store it in long-term memory (for example, seeing a math problem, identifying the values and operations involved, and understanding that your task is to solve the math problem).