From the answer choices, schemata are a method of organizing information that allows the brain to work more efficiently.
Schemata refer to mental frame work or ideas used for organizing the world. In psychology and cognitive science, schemata define a pattern of behavior or though, that arranged categories of information and the interaction between them.
Schemata are a plural for the singular word “schema”, and individual applies schemata to their daily life activities.
For example, an individual that see an animal can identify such animal, be it birds, reptile or fish. However the concepts of identifying the animal is schemata
There may be level of organization or information between schemata but the low levels inside a schema is knows as subschemata.
However, there are four types of schemata, which include personal constructs, prototypes, stereotypes and scripts. An individual uses these four types of schemata to make sense of a particular situation. All these tools are used to arrange our views in a way that is most appropriate or meaningful.
Prototype is the first of the schemata. It is most representatives or better example of a category. Example in this case is best friend, teacher, or stating that an individual is a perfect engineer.
Personal construct enable individual to evaluate people and situations using bipolar manner.
Scripts is used as a guide to action, how individual acts in a specified situation and how we expect interaction to occur in some situations.
Stereotypes is used to predict generalization about situations or persons based on the category in which we placed them.
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