Schema Bias
The Schema Bias resource illuminates how core beliefs are maintained
Schema Bias
This Schema Bias resource will help you understand what maintains core beliefs (or ‘schemas’) and why they can be so difficult to change.
Overview
Schemas are enduring, foundational mental structures that play a crucial role in cognitive processing, enabling individuals to represent the complexities of the world (Rafaeli et al., 2016). Core beliefs, which are the most fundamental level of cognition, are embedded within these schemas. Core beliefs are also self-sustaining; they tend to attract confirmatory evidence while repelling or distorting disconfirmatory evidence.
This information handout visually explains how schema maintenance operates. It can help clients understand how the mind shapes and distorts information, helping prepare clients for schema-change interventions.
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