In the present study a generalized approach is given for the description of acquisition procedures with a particular focus on the knowledge acquisition process. The learning progression is given as an example here letting the theory to be applied to different situations. An analytical approach is performed starting from the generalized fundamental definitions of the main characterizing variables of the learning process: motivation, background, interaction; the environmental stability was presented here as a derived quantity which has the features of a property or a state variable. This approach can be generalized to any process by performing an abstraction to its macro-state and with a rigorous definition of the mentioned variables. The derivation of parameters describing transfer in general, in this case related to information and knowledge, and further treatment of them leading to state properties, is a fundamental aspect which allows optimizing systems putting investigators in a condition of independence.