Does schema affect our memory?

Many of our abilities are innate and that includes memory. Memory is tightly connected with learning, which then can be influenced the individual's behavior in the future. In terms of cognition, the psychologist focuses on the way we process information. The information is brought and understand into the mind in various of ways and is then manipulated by placing into a sensory, short term or long term storage and is recalling and retrieved when necessary. Even so, retrieving memory was no longer the process of picking out an asymmetrical experience from storage, rather than the reconstruction of experience of using the schema as a guide. (Gray 2010)

Definition

According to Frederic Bartlett, schema is the knowledge, beliefs or expectations about concepts or specific aspects of the world; the relationship between different objects, situations, events, sequences of events, actions and sequences of actions are all stored into unites. There known as units of knowledge are stored is called a schema. Is it the idea that human tries to categorize new knowledge into existing schema in order to better understand it in the content of the world. (Crane, John, and Jette 2009)

While the use of schemas as a basic concept was first introduced by Bartlett as a part of the learning theory, it was Theorist Jean Piaget who introduces this term.

Jean Piaget believes that schemas become more complex through the process of assimilation and accommodation. Assimilation means modifying one environment so it fits into another one that’s already developed a way of thinking and acting, in similar words, it is the process of fitting new information and experience and going into existing schemas. Where accommodation means to reshape ourself to fit in...

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