schema

• Tell us how to act or what to expect, understand the world and haw to make sense of new information
• Ideas and information that we hold from previous experiences.
• Act as a mental framework for the interpretation of incoming new information

  They are unique to each individual- so the way we think about things depends on what you have or haven’t experienced
• Schemas grow as we get older as they become more detailed and complex
• Schema = a collection of ideas. All the knowledge we have about a person object or item. Anything we have encountered we have a schema for.