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What do you understand by the concept "schema" and how might this notion help us to understand human
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What do you understand by the concept "schema" and how might this notion help us to understand human The schema idea is of central importance to the emerging discipline of cognitive science. Schema-like concepts have, however, been present for a long time in cognitive psychology and can even be detected in Kant's (1787) notion of a priori structures of the mind. Basically schema theories are theories about knowledge; its organisation and how it is used. To clarify the nature and function of schemata I will take a brief look at their historical background before examining modern instantiations of the idea. Then I will consider the relevance of such notions in unraveling the mysteries of the organisation and functioning of human longterm memory. The schema concept is frequently attributed to Bartlett (1932) who posited that people's understanding and rememberence of events is shaped by their expectations or prior knowledge, and that these...
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