1. INFORMATION PROCESSING SCHEMA/SCRIPTS

2. SCHEMA - DEFINITION ã 1) Abstract Or Generic Knowledge Structure ã 2) Stored In Memory ã 3) That Specify The Defining Features and Relevant Attitudes ã 4) In Some Stimulus Domain ã 5) And Interrelationships Among The Attributes

3. SCHEMA ARE USEFUL IN THAT THEY: 4 Help structure, organize, interpret new information 4 Help in encoding, storage, and recall 4 Decrease cognitive effort (save cognitive time and energy) 4 Interpretative and inferential functions

4. People’s understanding of the psychology of typical or specific individuals, composed of traits and goals, helps them to categorize others, and to remember schema-relevant behavior. PERSON-IN- SITUATION SCHEMA: highly rich in detail and available to for recall PERSON SCHEMA:

5. SELF- SCHEMA: General information about one’s own psychology makes up a complex, easily accessible, verbal self-concept that guide information processing about the self.

6. SELF- SCHEMA: Cont. Our schema for self: More familiar, affective, robust, complex, verbal self-portrait. Our schema for others are less familiar, less accessible in memory, less affective, simpler, and more likely to be stored in image form.

7. ROLE- SCHEMA: Intergroup perception and stereotyping are affected by role schemas that describe the appropriate norms and behavior for broad social categories, based on age, race, sex, and occupation.

8. EVENT SCHEMA: People’s prior knowledge of the typical sequence of events on standard social occasions helps them to understand ambiguous information, to remember relevant information, and to infer consistent information where it is missing.

9. Empirical Script Norms at Three Agreement Levels Dark Blue: Over 50% agreement Light Blue: 36-50% agreement Green: 20-35% agreement

10. THEORY OF MINDFULNESS- MINDLESSNESS ASSUMPTIONS: –(1) Similar actions can be accompanied by vastly differing cognitive activities –(2) Much that appears to be thoughtful, conscious, and intentional is in fact mindless

11. Mindlessness Definition “A state of reduced mental activity in which individuals process cues in a relatively automatic manner, without attending to novel aspects of those cues.” –(Fisk, Taylor, Crocker)

12. WHEN ARE WE MINDFUL 8 (1) More Effort is demanded than originally imagined. 8 (2) External factors disrupt instantiation of scripts. 8 (3) External factors prevent completing of behavior. 8 (4) When Negative or Positive outcomes are sufficiently discrepant.

13. THE INITIAL INTERACTION SCRIPT *GREETING *INTRODUCTION Health Present Situation Reason for Presence Weather *CAPITAL LETTERS = over 65% of respondents stated action –CAPITAL LETTERS = 50-65% of respondents stated action –Underlined = 35-50% of respondents stated action –Typed = 20-35% of respondents stated action –Based on research by Kathy Kellermann & Scott Broetzmann INITIATION PHASE

14. Where Live HOMETOWN PERSONS KNOW IN COMMON What do you do? Education Occupation Social Relations Compliments Interests Family Sports MAINTENANCE PHASE

15. Discuss Near Future Meeting Evaluation of Encounter Plan Future Meeting Positive Evaluation of Person Until Later Reason for Terminating GOOD-BYES TERMINATION PHASE