FOUNDATION IN NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENTAUG 2014 INTAKE

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY[PSY30203]

INDIVIDUAL JOURNAL 3

Name : Foong Wing Hoe

Student ID : 0320085

Tutor : Shankar Thiruchelvam

Submission date : 27th April 2015

In psychology, a schema describes an organised pattern of thought or behaviour that organises categories of information and the relationships among them. It can also be described as a mental structure of preconceived ideas, a framework representing some aspect of the world, or a system of organising and perceiving new information. During my everyday life, schema plays in many part of it. There was this time where I saw a sport car on the freeway, I assume it was fast, shiny and expensive. It was schematically encrypted that all sport cars are that way. Besides, something basic like me making my morning coffee requires schema. Without schema, my daily routine will be a mess. I won’t be reminder that what goes first and when to pour or how many amount of hot water do I need to make my morning sip of coffee. We developed schema way earlier, during birth we already started to collect info that soon became our schema. For instance, as soon as we take a glance on a German Shepherd we assume it in our head as a dog. This prove that our schema started early on in our lives.