Further, we expected that students who had engaged in the coding activity would outperform students in the less interactive viewing activity, since
schema theory suggests that learners who must actively negotiate meaning learn more deeply through a process of tuning (Rumelhart & Norman, 1978).
The presentation addresses the empirical foundations of
schema theory by shedding light on the role of early maladaptive
schemas in depression etiology and reviews the clinical evidence of
schema therapy as a possible treatment option for (chronic) depression: Limited evidence
suggests that ST by targeting self - referential cognitive
schemas (EMS) which mediate the effects of early life adversity on vulnerability towards and maintenance of depressive disorders in the sense of distal risk factors could be an effective treatment for depression and a feasible alternative to CBT (Brewin et al. 2009; Carter et al. 2013; Malogiannis et al. 2014; Renner et al. 2016).