Psychological status of the script concept.

1981/07/01 by Robert P. Abelson · 41 citations
Psychology · #Language, Metaphor, and Cognition #Child and Animal Learning Development #Categorization, perception, and language

paper · doi:10.1037/0003-066x.36.7.715

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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