Highlight the importance of schemas in social cognition.

1.	Highlight the importance of schemas in social cognition.
Answer» • Social schemas (schemata) are mental structure. • They function as a framework to process social information. These schemas lead to emergence of prototypes. • Prototypes are concepts which have most of the defining features of a concept, class or family. • These are best representatives of the population. • Various stereotypes emerge from these schemas. In other words stereotypes are category based schemas.

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• Social schemas (schemata) are mental structure.

• They function as a framework to process social information. These schemas lead to emergence of prototypes.

• Prototypes are concepts which have most of the defining features of a concept, class or family.

• These are best representatives of the population.

• Various stereotypes emerge from these schemas. In other words stereotypes are category based schemas.

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