Unit 1 - LAA1 - The Role of Cognitive Scripts

Question 1

What is meant by a cognitive script?

Answer 1

knowledge on how social situations play out

Question 2

What is the term for “knowledge of how social situations play out”

Answer 2

Cognitive scripts

Question 3

What are cognitive scripts also know as?

Answer 3

Memory scripts

Question 4

What does a cognitive script include?

Answer 4

Knowledge of what we expect to happen, how we should behave and consequences of our behaviour

Question 5

What is the term for knowledge of what we expect to happen?

Answer 5

Schema

Question 6

How are our cognitive scripts developed?

Answer 6

through experience

Question 7

What can inform our cognitive script?

Answer 7

Our experiences

Question 8

Do we have control over our schemas/ cognitive scripts?

Answer 8

no it acts out of our awareness

Question 9

If cognitive scripts act out of our awareness, what does that mean?

Answer 9

we have no control over our cognitive process

Question 10

What are the features of memory scripts?

Answer 10

• They are broken down into scenes by time
• They concern multiple goals
• They are dynamic and evolve with experience
• They are influenced by culture
• We remember events that are consistent (match our schema) or inconsistent (stand out or go against our schema)

Question 11

Give an example of how cognitive scripts are broken down into scenes

Answer 11

you enter the restaurant first, go to the reception, go to your seats etc.

Question 12

Give and example of how cognitive scripts have multiple goals

Answer 12

I.e. to satisfy hunger

Question 13

Give an example of how cognitive scripts evolve with experience

Answer 13

the more people and situations we come across the more our schema’s adapt

Question 14

Give an example of how cognitive scripts are influence by our culture

Answer 14

in Japan there are restaurants where you sit by yourself

Question 15

Give an example of how cognitive scripts are influenced by memory

Answer 15

we remember events that are consistent (match our schema) or inconsistent (stand out or go against our schema)

Question 16

How do cognitive scripts influence the perception of people?

Answer 16

When you meet someone, you immediately make assumptions about their character based on what you see

Question 17

How do our cognitive scripts work when we meet someone knew?

Answer 17

We draw information from our memory to guide our behaviour

Question 18

What is a person schema?

Answer 18

organised knowledge and expectations about other peoples personalities

Question 19

What is the term for the organised knowledge and expectations about other peoples personalities?

Answer 19

person schema

Question 20

What can influence a person schema?

Answer 20

past experience with different people and stereotypes

Question 21

How does person perception work?

Answer 21

When meeting someone knew, rather than perceiving them as an individual with their own unique combination of traits

Question 22

What is a benefit of using person perception?

Answer 22

it speeds up cognitive processing as it fills in gaps in our knowledge

Question 23

What is a weakness of person perception?

Answer 23

it is not accurate as it is based on our own cognitive biases