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What are schemas?

Schemas are repeated behaviours that babies and young children use to explore and understand the world. Examples of schema behaviour might be:

• a baby continuously dropping objects over the side of a high chair and watching them fall to the floor
• a toddler repeatedly bringing objects and placing them in an adult’s lap, or loading up a barrow or bucket with objects, then tipping them out again
• a child who always climbs into an empty box, builds walls with big bricks and makes walls and fields for cars or small-world animals
• a child who is interested in everything that turns – taps, doorknobs, keys, locks and wind-up toys.