A type of perceptual mechanism that can be said to recognise particular objects. Also refers to a mental representation of some feature of experience or the interpretation of new knowledge in terms of existing knowledge, following the meaning given by Frederic C. Bartlett (1866-1969) in his book Remembering
A study in experimental and social psychology (1932). Not the same as a scheme
. See Constraint, Mental image, Own-sex schema, Representation (mental), Scheme