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Why Do We Have Schemas?

  • Assistance in avoiding an excess amount of information.
  • Imperative to individual's interpretation of others, themselves, and society.
  • Imperative in decreasing indistinctiveness.
  • Once shaped, schemas produce powerful effects.

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