verbal information occurs within the context of a network of in connected and organized propositions previously stored in the learner's memory
It may be that newly learned knowledge is subsumed into larger meaningful structures (Ausubel, Novak, and Hanesian, 1978), or it may be that the new information is linked to a network of propositions already in the learner's memory (R.M Gagné, 1985)
External Conditions The external conditions that favor the learning and retention of organized sets of verbal information pertain primarily to the provision of cues