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GCSE Psychology · key term
A mental framework that organises knowledge and helps a person interpret experiences.
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A mental framework of knowledge and expectations developed through experience, which helps a person interpret new information.
Revise: Memory as an Active ProcessA schema is a mental framework developed through experience. For example, a restaurant schema contains expectations about menus, ordering food and paying. It helps you understand what to do in a restaurant you have never visited.
Distinguish assimilation from accommodation: using an existing schema is not the same as changing it.
Distinguish a schema, which is a mental framework, from an attribution, which is an explanation of why something happened.
For assimilation, identify the existing schema being used. For accommodation, explain how the schema changes because the new information does not fit.
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A mental framework built from experience that helps a person organise and interpret information.
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A mental framework, based on experience, that helps a person organise and interpret information.
Revise: Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory and EvaluationA schema is a mental framework that helps us organise and interpret information. For example, a child might have a horse schema involving four legs, a mane and a particular body shape. Piaget believed that children are born with some schemas and develop more through experience.
A mental framework developed from previous experience that organises knowledge and creates expectations about objects, people or situations.
