Note Details
- Stage: soil ✨
- Type: concept
- Topics: psychology ontology
- a schema is an organized pattern of thought and behavior
- a conceptual model
- personal constructs = schema, ways of seeing the world
- mental structure of preconceived ideas, a framework representing some aspect of the world, or a system of organizing and perceiving new information.
- form of beliefs about the self or the world
- modes are states of mind that cluster schemas and coping styles into a way of being we can shift in and out of.
- basic needs: connection, safety, validation, reciprocity, autonomy
- heal schemas by diminishing the intensity of emotional memories comprising the schema and the intensity of bodily sensations, and by changing the cognitive patterns connected to the schema
- replace maladaptive coping styles and responses with adaptive patterns of behavior
- a pattern of thought or behavior that organizes categories of information and the relationships among them
- Schemata influence attention and the absorption of new knowledge: people are more likely to notice things that fit into their schema, while re-interpreting contradictions to the schema as exceptions or distorting them to fit. Schemata have a tendency to remain unchanged, even in the face of contradictory information.
- People use schemata to organize current knowledge and provide a framework for future understanding.