Script
A script is a knowledge structure, which describes the adequate sequence of events of
familiar situations, for instance the script of a restaurant situation. It includes
information about the invariant aspect of the situation, for example, all restaurants
serve food. Moreover, it has slots for variables that apply to specific restaurants,
for example, how expensive a particular restaurant is. Scripts combine single scenes
to an integrated sequence from the point of view of a specific actor. Besides this
temporal organization scripts – like any other schema – are organized in a hierarchical
order.
See also:
cognition,
information processing,
representation,
schema,
social cognition
Literature:
Abelson (1976),
Sabini (1992),
Schwarz (1985)
