... the 1980's. Schema theory suggests that the information we have stored in memory is organized in such a way as to incorporate all the knowledge of a given type of object or event that we have acquired from past experience. Schemas are packages of information stored in memory representing general knowledge about all kinds of events, actions, objects or situations in the world around us. The knowledge about simple things such as the shapes of letters to more complex knowledge about events of everyday life are all stored in memory as schemas. New information relevant to the schema is absorbed and remembered to provide a framework which can be added to whenever necessary. Information, which is not relevant to the schema in operation, may be disregarded and forgotten. The information in memory tends to be changed from the specific to the general. In this way, if we forgot something about ...

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