Question

Wendy sees a picture of a beach and then later tries to draw the picture from memory. She draws shells on the beach even though the beach in the picture had no shells. Using psychologists' concept of schema, how could we explain Wendy's error?

Answer 1

Answer:    Wendy's schema of how a typical beach looks includes shells

Explanation:  The psychological concept of a scheme implies that a particular image of something according to the scheme should look a certain way. This actually means that the brain connects a certain knowledge or experience to a particular event or object, subject, etc. Based on a certain knowledge or experience, one approaches a meaningful, known scheme, leading to known actions. So Wendy draws a picture of a beach with shells based on her beach experience or some previous beach image and approaches drawing with an understanding of the beach she already has.