AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -A schema is a mental representation that enables us to organize our knowledge into categories. Our schemas help us simplify our interactions with the world. They are mental shortcuts that can both help us and hurt us. We use our schemas to learn and think more quickly.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mental representations are, in short, objects and structures in the mind with semantic properties. More precisely, mental representations are information-containing, physically-realized structures in the mind that allow us to perceive, make sense of, process, understand, and recall all stimuli.

Detailed explanation-3: -The theory of mental imagery (Kosslyn, 1994; Kosslyn et al., 2006) makes a distinction between spatial mental images and visual mental images. These two mental representations differ in the content they represent and are distinct in their anatomical localization.

Detailed explanation-4: -Our theoretical basis lies in Johnson-Laird’s theory of mental representations, according to which there are at least three major kinds of such representations: mental models, proposi-tions and images.