Bartlett's schema theory: The unreplicated “portrait d'homme” series from 1932

Bartlett's schema theory: the unreplicated "portrait d'homme" series from 1932.

In 1932, Frederic Bartlett laid the foundation for the later schema theory. His key assumption of previous knowledge affecting the processing of new stimuli was illustrated in the famous "portrait d'homme" series. Sequenced reproductions of ambiguous stimuli showed progressive object-likeness. As Bartlett pointed out, activation of specific schemata, for instance "the face schema", biases memor...

Schema Theory

Schema Theory

We recently proposed the attention schema theory, a novel way to explain the brain basis of subjective awareness in a mechanistic and scientifically testable. Definition: Schema theory is a branch of cognitive science concerned with how the brain A schema is an organized unit of knowledge for a subject or event. We recently proposed the attention schema theory, a novel way to explain the brain ...

The Application of Schema Theory

Listening was once believed to be a passive one-way comprehensive process. However, with the development of language teaching, listening comprehension is found to be an interactive process of two-way communication, during which listeners’ background knowledge play an important role. Schema theory lays theoretical foundation for this explanation. Based on this, the author designs a Schema Theory...

Pragmatic Reasoning Schema Theory

according to utility theory, people should not allow the _____ of a choice to affect people seem not to have pragmatic reasoning schemata that apply. ical evidence for pragmatic reasoning schema theory comes from performance ory, pragmatic reasoning schemas are abstracted from everyday experience. parts of Cheng and Holyoak's pragmatic reasoning schemas are those about people. However, Cosmides...