How do we decide which schema to use in processing an ambiguous ...

[moongchi]

How do we decide which schema to use in processing an ambiguous stimulus?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

According to research conducted by Nisbett and his colleagues (1987), how might you improve your social reasoning? Take a(n) ________ course.
 
  a. chemistry
  b. statistics
  c. economics
  d. history

[ebenov]

Answer to Question 1

Answer: When we have multiple schemas that we could use for interpreting a stimulus, we tend to interpret the stimulus using whichever schema is most accessible, that is, which is most in the forefront of our mind. Schemas can be either chronically accessible, based on long-term experience, or can become temporarily more accessible through priming, in which recent experiences bring certain schemas to the forefront.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: B

[moongchi]

Thank you

[ebenov]

No problem