The more general ideas appear to be recalled better than the more specific ones
Details are often "constructed" by the learner, apparently in accordance with a general schema (Spiro, 1977) that represents the gist of a story or passage Internal Conditions As in the case of individual facts, the learning and storage of larger units of organized
verbal information occurs within the context of a network of in terconnected and organized propositions previously stored in the learner's memory