To understand something means to assimilate it into an appropriate schema. [...]
Since new experience which fits into an existing schema is so much better remembered, a schema has a highly selective effect on our experience. That which does not fit into it is largely not learnt at all, and what is learnt temporarily is soon forgotten.
This hints that schemata that one forms from reading another’s approach to a problem may inhibit original thought, since assimilation to existing schemata probably occurs mostly automatically (when possible).
This practice makes some sense from a schema perspective of understanding. From The Psychology of Learning Mathematics:
This hints that schemata that one forms from reading another’s approach to a problem may inhibit original thought, since assimilation to existing schemata probably occurs mostly automatically (when possible).