Movies like âMoonlightâ donât win the Oscar for best picture. Movies about the conflicted desires of young gay men, captured with quiet tenderness and exquisite intimacy, donât win the Oscar for best picture. (Just ask âBrokeback Mountain.â) Movies that tell modest coming-of-age stories, light on dramatic incident but rich in emotional rewards, donât win the Oscar for best picture.
Examples of schemata include rubrics, perceived social roles, stereotypes, and worldviews. 1  The concept of schema was first introduced into psychology by British psychologist Frederic Bartlett in Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology (1932). Bartlett perceived organized knowledge as an elaborate network of abstract mental structures that represent a personâs understanding of the world, and he studied the impact of oneâs cultural background in rephrasing and memorizing certain events.
James sought to understand the âstream of consciousnessâ. Behaviorism. was founded by James B. Watson, who thought the focus of psychology should only be observable behavior and not the study of consciousness. In order for psychology to be scientific, one must be able to verify ideas.