Knowledge acquisition can be viewed as a process of building schemas, which are mental frameworks. Scripts, which are one type of schema, provode a framework for understadning sequences of events that usually unfold in a regular, almost standardized, order. Experts rely heavily on schemas that they have developewd from experience. Compared to novices, experts have more schemas to gide problem-solving in their field and are much better at recognizing when each schema shoudl be applied. Schemas also enable experts to take greater advantage of long-term memory