Have you ever wonder why n some occasion it is very difficult for you to blend into another group of friends because you do not understand what they are talking about? Have you ever question that why sometimes it is very easy for some other people to mixed with different kinds of people? What is it that they have and you do not have? It’s schema. According to schema theory, people organize everything they know into schemas, or knowledge structures (Tracey and Morrow, 2006, p.51). Some people have wider schemas. They have more knowledge about more range of things, and that is why it is very easy for them to blend into another social group. Women who ever gave birth would actually cling more with other women who have gave birth. Gamers would actually communicate well with games developer.
If I am going to make a presentation to a group of children between the ages of 8-10 years old, I will first need to know what their standard is up to yet. It is very obvious that young children and adults do not have the same knowledge. So this basically means that an adult will have more elaborated schema for the world rather than the young children. So it is very important that we do not present something that is very complicated with the purpose of requires them to interpret a lot of things. These are the two pictures that I would want to present it to the children.
The reason that I chose these two pictures is it is very easy to recognize and understand. It is congruous because they should be very familiar with the pictures and it is not something that is bizarre and causes them to ponder about it. The first picture shows two young children cheerfully playing with the fire matches. The second picture then shows the house on fire and the children are crying for help. The two pictures in fact show a before and after occasion.
According to Minsky (1975), a frame is a data-structure for representing a stereotyped situation. The top levels of a frame are fixed, and represent things that are always true about the supposed situation. The lower levels have many terminals slots that must be filled by specific instances or data. So in this case, the top level of the schematic process is to not play with fire as they are very dangerous and can cause accidents. If fire accidents are to be happened, they have to escape from the house as fast as possible. The terminals of this frame that can be change is that it is not necessary to be matches, anything that can cause fire is dangerous, for instance the fire stove.
So in conclusion, in order to let a person understand about something, the person has to have an existing schema about the particular topic so that it is easier for them to understand.
References:
Minsky, M. (1975). The Psychology of Computer Vision, P. Winston (Ed.) New York: McGraw Hill: McGraw-Hill. Retrived from www.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/Frames/frames.html
Tracey, D., H and Morrow, L., Mandel (2006). Lenses on Reading: An Introduction on Theories and Models. New York, NY, USA: Guilford Press.
Images taken from:
Seng Yee (2010)
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