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dmcintosh · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Which of the following students' statements represents the best understanding of the concept of schemas?

a. Rosario: Schemas are typically counterproductive, causing more errors than correct responses.
b. Dean: Schemas help us anticipate what will happen in a situation.
c. Angelique: Schemas refer to the order in which events occur, whereas scripts refer to the general characteristics of a situation.
d. Edgar: Schemas are especially well developed for nonprototypical items.

Question 2

According to the discussion of schemas in Chapter 8,

a. a schema applies to your generalized knowledge, such as knowledge about how to register for classes at your college.
b. a schema can be divided into smaller units of knowledge, called scripts.
c. each person in a particular culture has a schema for an everyday event that is very different from other people's schemas for that event.
d. in most cases, a schema can be directly converted to an exemplar.