
Imagine if sending an email would require as much thought and mental preparation as sky diving. Imagine that if every time you came across a piece of information – be it familiar or new - you would have to start from scratch. Talk about a waste of brain power!
Thanks to Cognitive Schemas, a set of processes defined by psychologist Jean Piaget in 1926, you can save precious brain power for other endeavors.
Cognitive schemas in action
The idea behind cognitive schemas is that the manner with which we receive, interpret, integrate and judge the value of new information is fundamentally automated to accelerate the whole process. If you’ve learned to hate a certain type of music, you’ll need only a second to recognize its first notes and get away from the shop playing it – this without even being conscious of it.
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