Question

Explain the following concept in 25 to 30 words:

Schema

Answer 1

"Thinking is the mental activity that uses various cognitive elements and processes that involves manipulation of information, problem solving, reasoning as well as decision making." If you analyse all the mental activities involved in thinking, you will find that thinking seems to be private and internal to ourselves. While thinking, we create a world within us and we run through various actions symbolically rather than in reality. The schema is the core element of thinking is explained as follows:

A schema is “an internal representation that organizes knowledge about related concepts and relationships among them". Schemata influence most of the cognitive processes. 

For example, when a child visits a zoo, the concepts of animals, home, cage, display, public, etc. gets activated simultaneously and a connection is established between them. This leads to formation of schema of a zoo.