schema

To combat this, the ERA would provide a way to get justices to side with women, that’s not connected to the current, flawed schema of judicial review.

Chess players remember the location of pieces on the board using schema, a way of organizing new information in the brain.

“You have this very tight, well worn schema that we are adult colleagues who are going out to talk,” she said.

As Bohannon writes: “The ideas that human beings have about reality — what it’s made of, how it works, how we all fit into grander schemata — can change fundamentally.”

Under the schema of motivated reasoning, even the weakest information propping up a belief becomes amplified, while strong disconfirming evidence is dismissed.