Quotes About Schemas

the proliferation of schemas of racial classification was one reason for the demise of 'scientific racism'.

Database schemas are notoriously volatile, extremely concrete, and highly depended on. This is one reason why the interface between OO applications and databases is so difficult to manage, and why schema updates are generally painful.

our aim has been to provide anyone who is seriously interested with an introduction to the world of the archetypes, and to make this introduction as simple as possible. For this reason we have included… a number of schemas, or diagrams, which as experience has shown, make things much easier for most people, though by no means for all." Erich Neumann, The Great Mother, p.xii.

Object relations theorists are interested in understanding how formative interactions between parents and children become internalized by the child and, akin to cognitive schemas, serve as mental representations that shape or guide how children establish and carry out subsequent relationships with others.

Services interact with their peers strictly through APIs and thus don't share data structures, database schemata, or other internal representations of objects. Bounded

often suggest that my clients use an inner dialogue with their schemas, talking back to the thoughts rather than remaining passive.

When therapy was successful, two kinds of changes showed up in person after person: the schemas' grip on their lives loosened, and the script changed for the better its typical outcome.

Schemas have distinctive emotional flavors: abandonment triggers anxiety,

This would explain how our schemas shape so powerfully the way things seem, almost as though they cast a spell over us.

The act of challenging schemas can take on the warrior spirit of wrathful compassion

mindfulness fills much of our attention with something other than the mental tape loops that activate our schemas.

One method—mental noting, where we label familiar thoughts as such without getting pulled into them—is quite helpful in working with our schemas.

Western philosophy exhibits schemas such as the substance-attributes relation, where substance is the present being which the attributes modify;

A great way to avoid useless accuracy, and to dodge the Curse of Knowledge, is to use analogies. Analogies derive their power from schemas: A pomelo is like a grapefruit. A good news story is structured like an inverted pyramid. Skin damage is like aging. Analogies make it possible to understand a compact message because they invoke concepts that you already know.

Surprise jolts us to attention. Surprise is triggered when our schemas fail, and it prepares us to understand why the failure occurred.