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Lecture Notes

So how easy was it for you to remember a lot of those details? Many people really struggle with this. We have a schema for what a penny is, certainly. We probably use them relatively frequently throughout our day, but the details tend to drop out. And remember, this is consistent with what we know about long-term memory. The schemas—that information—are  really in long-term memory in kind of a generalized way. Unless we have a strong reason to know the details, often we just have a very broad concept or generalization of what the penny might be, or lots of other information, for that matter.