Homework Clinic
Social Science Clinic => Psychology => Topic started by: student77 on Jun 22, 2018
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Define scripts and schemas, explain how they enable us to better process information, and give an example of each.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 2
If you need to know about the tasks, knowledge, skills, work activities, wages, and employment outlook for a number of different jobs, what online resource would be most helpful?
a. SIOP
b. ONET
c. WorkForce
d. About
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Answer to Question 1
a . Scripts are knowledge structures that represent substantial information about a concept, its attributes, and its relationships to other concepts.
b. Scripts are knowledge structures that define situations and guide behavior. They can be thought of as schemas for behavioral sequences or events.
c. Both operate according to the automatic system. They allow us to more easily categorize incoming information, to more readily access relevant memories and other data, and to better remember schema-consistent information. As a result, schemas and scripts both guide behavior and decision-making. Without schemas and scripts we would need to re-learn what a car or a dog or a restaurant, for example, is all about each and every time we encountered them.
Answer to Question 2
B