Our brains as libraries
- Schemas are the building blocks of our knowledge about the world. Our brains rely on different types of schemas to understand different types of situations.
- Schemas are like books in your mind telling you what different objects are and what they do. A bird schema, for example, might say that birds are “small animals,” “have wings” and “can fly.” Together, all the objects you know form a collection of books that fill the shelves of a library in your mind.
- Our brains trust what these books or schemas tell us when we try to understand objects in our environment.
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