Scripts as linear orders
Scripts as linear orders
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作为线性顺序的脚本
DOI:
10.1016/0022-1031(80)90026-8
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发表时间:
1980
影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
E. Shoben
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作者:
Gail Nottenburg;E. Shoben
Two models of people's knowledge of routine activities (e.g., eating in a restaurant) are outlined. The first of these script models assumes that events in a script can only be accessed in sequential (that is, temporal) order. In contrast to thisretrieval-dependentmodel, the second model is derived from a theory of linear orders, or the ordering of objects on a given dimension (e.g., animals on a dimension of size). Thisretrieval-independentmodel asserts that all items can be retrieved with equal facility. In the first of two reaction time experiments, subjects judged which of two events in a given script occurred sooner (or later). The results were similar to those observed in linear order experiments, and supported the retrieval-independent model. A second experiment ruled out an artifactual explanation of our results. The relation between script theory and the theory of linear orders is discussed.