What is Schema Theory in Psychology?

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[nicoleonfeels]

It’s crazy how much we learn the first few years of life.

[ishrakahmed]

Loved the description. Finally grasped the idea of schema just in few minutes. Thank you

[DESTRAKON]

Good to know, I'm glad info like this is being put out there, let's people get more control of themselves

[olafcreed]

This is crazy. I was writing a story the other day about the mind analogous to a boat. A chapter on memory was also written. Crazy how you posted this, probably at the same time I was writing it.
It goes that our minds are boats on an ocean, and as we move through life in time the boat gets filled (with what you call schema) with objects. And when we try to retrieve a memory it is like we are rummaging through all the objects trying to find and grab it. Sometimes we will see something that maybe reminds us of it so we gravitate from one direction to the other. I'm telling it to stress the importance that when we throw things into our boat in life we must do it in an organized but most importantly sequential order. This is to help us remember where we placed the object in the boat. Because the most strategic method I think is to make the associations as sequentially as possible through life.

Note I am no professional nor have I studied in this field. It was more of a deep thought turned into a story about depression. Memory was a small chapter in it.

[dailydoseofmedicinee]

Linguistic schema refers to readers' prior linguistic knowledge, including the knowledge about phonetics, grammar and vocabulary as traditionally recognized.👍

[jgibbs]

At 3;51 you say "we don't have to repaint that picture every time" However, our brains actually do repaint that schema every single time you experience anything. If the experience generally coincides with your current schema picture, your brain assimilates the data into the current schema. if it does not, it accommodates the change and edits or creates a new schema for the experience. The memory process associated with the assimilation/accommodation process also edits and reframes the memory for an experience each time your recall the experience - also known as the consolidation and re-consolidation process. In other words, your memory of an experience is always updating, and through that process, your schema is also constantly updating and changing - which is why disinformation campaigns are so efficacious.

[RGMRT]

This one i learned back in the 3rd or 4th semester on the behavioral psychology class. Thanks for the refreshing!

[tomm]

I did a intro to Psychology 3 month course. Damn I loved it, when I learned about Schema, damnn

[jeewanarya]

Man!!! The father - son - mother example was great 😮

[gatsbyspet]

Literally am writing this in my exam for 5 days. Great timing :))

[itsdizazzle]

Beautifully explained! Absolutely enjoyed this insightful video!

[MyPersonalCoachingClub]

It's a very useful abstract concept and the little index cards that represent a concept analogy makes it easier to grasp!!

[skellybone]

something I found interesting about the doctor + dead father scenario you used in this video is that I was quicker to assume the child had two dads then I was to assume the doctor was his mother. Even though I typically think of a family unit as being comprised of one mother and one father my “priority” schema seemed to be the assumption that doctors are men. 😂

[alexandrurobertionutgate]

I just want to say thank you for making this so cool, relaxing, and educational content for free, and keep doing it because you are great at this

[nachoraposo]

Great and amazing video! I love this series!

[anjithaa]

This is very helpful. Thank you so much. 💖

[simonbenjamin]

I must say...
You got me man... with your doctor riddle. I really thought the doc was male. The thought that the person could be his mother never crossed my mind

[AJ-sbnz]

I think one contributing factor why people assume automatically that the one who said that was his father is because of the statement itself. It mentions the son's father but never the mother. The use of pronouns such as "he" and "him" gives us an illusion that it might be the father who said that (I can't operate him, he's my son). If the statement adds a sentence, for example, "her mother cries because of what happens to her son and husband", then the question "Who is the doctor?" might become easier for most people. Our brain only processes information that is available at the present, unless our minds wander and look through its library for more connection. That's where the problem lies, we don't have time and energy to sip through information in our brain to make some connection when we are solving a problem that is currently in front of us and pressuring us to solve it immediately. It really takes time to think to solve something unless we have a repeated experience about that.

[sanderlaurenssen]

Where, what and how. A schema is a specific idea or plan that occurs when a situation takes place, schema’s can be made for everything and can have as mainly purpose to display a plan of action or important information.

[TheEdwri]

Figured out this is language and cultural specific. I did this reedle on my girlfriend who is from china. She answered the same as me in english, a gay couple father or a grandpa, but then she imagined telling this one to her chinese father in chinese and realised imidiatly that it was the mother. She thought in both english and french before she did it in chinese, and her explanation was that in chinese they have different words for medical people. If there is a chinese medicin doctor it would be an old man with herbs, but if it is a hospital person you see more nurses who tends to be female. Was quite cool how changing to chinese in her head litteraly changed the perception on this one.