schema theory
SKEE-mah THEE-uh-ree
ˈskiːmɑ ˈθɪəriListen
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a framework in cognitive psychology holding that knowledge is organised in memory as structured frameworks called schemas, which represent categories of information about the world and the relationships between them; schemas allow humans to process new information rapidly by fitting it into pre-existing structures, but can also cause distortions when new information is forced to fit an inappropriate framework; the concept was developed by Frederic Bartlett in the 1930s and has influenced research in memory, comprehension, social cognition, and artificial intelligence
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