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1. FOUNDATION IN NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT
AUG 2014 INTAKE
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
[PSY30203]
INDIVIDUAL JOURNAL 3
Name : Foong Wing Hoe
Student ID : 0320085
Tutor : Shankar Thiruchelvam
Submission date : 27th April 2015

3. 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.