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Why is learning considered to be a change in schema, according to cognitive theory?

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First of all, you need to know what schemas are. Schema is a pattern of thinking or behavior, according to cognitive theorists. So any time you do something new, such as learning new information, you are changing your schemas a bit to incorporate this new information, knowledge, behavior.
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