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1
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What is a schema?

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A packet of information about the world stored in our long term memory

2
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What are some types of schema?

A

Object schema
Role schema
Script schema

3
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Give an example of an object schema:

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E.g. Dog

Linked to collar, bone, lead, walk

4
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Give an example of a role schema:

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E.g nurse

Caring, helpful, clever

5
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Give an example of a script schema:

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E.g restaurant

Decide, book, order, get food, pay the bill

6
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What do schema help us do? How?

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Make sense of the world by providing short cuts to things we come across

7
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Where are schema developed from?

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Experiences - personal, the media, friends

8
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Are schemas an accurate representation of reality?

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No

9
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What can schemas result in? Why?

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Stereotyping

Schemas are short cuts so people can easily jump to conclusions about a group of people

10
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What did Allport and Postmans 1940s reasearch involve?

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Showing people a picture of black business man being threatened by scruffy white man on subway with a razor. Later the participants were asked to recall the image

11
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What did the participants in Allport and Postmans study say?

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They recalled the image as a black man threatening a white man

12
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Why might the participants have had this response in the Allport and postman study?

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Pre civil rights attitudes
• black people are criminals
• black people cant be successful businessmen

13
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What could schemas and stereotyping lead to?

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Discriminatory behaviour such as racial profiling e.g. Young black men experiencing more unwarranted stops, searches, arrests and cop killing in the USA

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