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disposition > cognition > mental representation > schema

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schema  

Definition

  • Schemas are abstract mental representations that summarize and organize events, objects, situations or similar experiences in a structured way. Schemas, stored in long-term memory, are used to analyze, select, organize and interpret new information, providing a kind of model or frame to process information and guiding behavior.

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  • schematic representation

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Bartlett, F. C. (1932). Remembering: A study in experimental and social psychology. Cambridge University Press.

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Ghosh, V. E., & Gilboa, A. (2014). What is a memory schema? A historical perspective on current neuroscience literature. Neuropsychologia, 53, 104-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.11.010

    [Study type: historical study, literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Gilboa, A., & Marlatte, H. (2017). Neurobiology of schemas and schema-mediated memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21(8), 618–631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2017.04.013

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Ost, J., Udell, J., Dear, S., Zinken, J., Blank, H., & Costall, A. (2022). The serial reproduction of an urban myth: Revisiting Bartlett’s schema theory. Memory, 30(6), 775–783. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2022.2059514

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Tse, D., Langston, R. F., Kakeyama, M., Bethus, I., Spooner, P. A., Wood, E. R., Witter, M. P., & Morris, R. G. M. (2007). Schemas and memory consolidation. Science, 316(5821), 76–82. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1135935

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

In other languages

  • schéma

    French

  • représentation schématique

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-SW4M15VJ-1

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