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sche·ma

(skē′mə)

n. pl. sche·ma·ta (skē-mä′tə, skĭ-măt′ə) or sche·mas

1. A plan, outline, or model: a schema for prioritizing vaccinations; a writer's schema for a novel.

2. Psychology A pattern imposed on complex reality or experience to assist in explaining it, mediate perception, or guide response.

[Latin schēma, schēmat-, form; see scheme.]

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schema

(ˈskiːmə)

n, pl -mata (-mətə)

1. a plan, diagram, or scheme

2. (Philosophy) (in the philosophy of Kant) a rule or principle that enables the understanding to apply its categories and unify experience: universal succession is the schema of causality.

3. (Psychology) psychol a mental model of aspects of the world or of the self that is structured in such a way as to facilitate the processes of cognition and perception

4. (Logic) logic an expression using metavariables that may be replaced by object language expressions to yield a well-formed formula. Thus A = A is an axiom schema for identity, representing the infinite number of axioms, x = x, y = y, z = z, etc

[C19: from Greek: form]

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sche•ma

(ˈski mə)

n., pl. sche•ma•ta (ˈski mə tə or, sometimes, skiˈmɑ tə, skɪ-)
sche•mas.

1. a diagram, plan, or scheme.

2. an underlying organizational pattern or structure; conceptual framework.

[1790–1800; < Greek schêma form, scheme]

schema

an outline or diagrammatic representation. See also drawing. — schematic, adj.

schema

noun

A method for making, doing, or accomplishing something:

blueprint, design, game plan, idea, layout, plan, project, scheme, strategy.

Translations

schéma

Schema

schema

[ˈskiːmə] N (schemata (pl)) [ˈskiːmətə] → esquema m

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schema

n pl <-ta> → Darstellung f; (Philos) → Schema nt

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schema

[ˈskiːmə] n (schemata (pl)) (frm) → schema

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sche·ma

n. esquema, plan, planeamiento.

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The above analysis of a thought, though I believe it to be mistaken, is very useful as affording a schema in terms of which other theories can be stated.

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Curtis, who works with children and teachers in early childhood programs, and Jaboneta, an early childhood educator, describe children's repeated patterns and actions in play in the context of schema theory.

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Young Schema Questionnaire measures maladaptive schemas which were developed among adults due to the inappropriate parenting.

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Schema therapy, developed for treatment-resistant diagnoses, allows clinicians to challenge cognitive distortions and negative coping styles that develop during childhood or adolescence.

Adding CBT to substance use treatment can change schema

Beck (1967) defined a schema as a "structure for screening, coding and evaluating stimuli that impinge on the organism".

The Dusseldorf Illustrated Schema Questionnaire for Children (DISC)

However, current memory research does not provide a full account about how perceptual schema expectations may lead to fluctuations in recall accuracy.

CAN PERCEIVED SCHEMA EXPECTATIONS AFFECT RETRIEVAL ACCURACY?

The 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-16) marked the first running of the Winograd Schema Challenge, sponsored by Nuance Communications.

The First Winograd Schema Challenge at IJCAI-16

The study supported the Young's Schema Theory which posits that due to malparenting, early maladaptive schemas are developed among offspring at early age and these schemas leads towards the development of personality disorder in adult life.

Paternal malparenting and offspring personality disorders: Mediating effect of early maladaptive schemas

Keywords: emotional and behavioral disorders, mathematics, problem solving, schema instruction, single case experimental design

Schema-based strategy instruction and the mathematical problem-solving performance of two students with emotional or behavioral disorders

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Noun	1.	schema - an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world scheme internal representation, mental representation, representation - a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image
	2.	schema - a schematic or preliminary plan outline, scheme plan, program, programme - a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished; "they drew up a six-step plan"; "they discussed plans for a new bond issue"