Psychological status of the script concept.
1981/07/01 by Robert P. Abelson · 1,701 citations
Psychology · #Categorization, perception, and language #Child and Animal Learning Development #Clinical psychology #Cognitive psychology #Developmental psychology #Language, Metaphor, and Cognition #Psychological testing #Psychology #Social psychology
paper · doi:10.1037/0003-066x.36.7.715
published in American Psychologist 36(7), 715-729 (American Psychological Association)
openalex publication_date 1981/07/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Abstract
Suggests that there has been growing interest within several subfields of psychology in the schematic nature of mental representations of real-world objects and events. One simple form of schema is the “script,” embodying knowledge of stereotyped event sequences. The present author traces applicatio
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