Marvin, who lives in San Francisco, has been asked to host a teenage alien, Regor, as part of an intergalactic exchange program.
Marvin is sure that Regor would love to experience the adventure of sailing but decides he should introduce the concept of a "sailboat" first. After some time studying, Regor has learned quite a bit about sailboats and is now excited about experiencing life on the water. So, Marvin and his dad take Regor sailing one weekend. Regor now has a set of beliefs, expectations, and personal experiences related to sailboats and sailing to which he can add new information. This is called a a. paradigm. b. template. c. concept. d. schema.
Schema is a cognitive concept that helps a person to organize the information. It helps us to interprets the information which is available in our environment. These cognitive frameworks help us to add the information that is useful for us and excludes the information that is not mandatory for us. Sometimes this information creates cognitive bias or stereotypes that could a barrier in adding new information. Frederick Bartlett who first proposed schema.
Thus here in the above concept, Razor now has the mental concepts in which he has new information that he can add in his pre-existing information is called a schema.
Well The world's first steam-powered passenger railroad was the Stockton & Darlington Railway, operating 25 miles of track through Darlington in the North East of England.
