From the perspective of contemporary cognitive psychology, a schema can best be described as:
a. an organized set of facts about a particular object or phenomenon.
b. a plan of action regarding how to learn something.
c. a set of reasons why a student would want to learn something.
d. a basic piece of information upon which most other knowledge must build.
a
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