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A schema is a script that has the potential to lack the specificity of the sequence of events. A schema being a script is when there is an ordering to it that requires action, an example of that being the process of starting up a car (get in, put on your seatbelt, turn the car on, turn off the emergency brake, etc.).
After setting out the topic of a work and establishing the need for attention to be given, the speaker or author would digress to a seemingly disconnected subject before returning to a development of the composition's theme, a proof of its validity, and a conclusion. A schizothemia is a digression by means of a long reminiscence.
Script analysis is the method of uncovering the "early decisions, made unconsciously, as to how life shall be lived". [1] It is one of the five clusters in transactional analysis, involving "a progression from structural analysis, through transactional and game analysis, to script analysis". [2]
In the behaviorism approach to psychology, behavioral scripts are a sequence of expected behaviors for a given situation. [1] Scripts include default standards for the actors, props, setting, and sequence of events that are expected to occur in a particular situation. The classic script example involves an individual dining at a restaurant.
Life scripts can be understood as the patterns of episodes. On this level, "every individual's history of relationships and interactions will influence rules and interaction patterns." [25] Life scripts are similar to the autobiography of individuals. It comprises the person's exceptions for a variety of communicative events. [30]
In ways that may be familiar to reformers today, government officials began to rethink incarceration policies toward addicts. Mandatory sentences fell out of favor, and a new federal law, the Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation Act, gave judges the discretion to divert a defendant into treatment.
Silvan Solomon Tomkins (June 4, 1911 – June 10, 1991) [1] was a psychologist and personality theorist who developed both affect theory and script theory.Following the publication of the third volume of his book Affect Imagery Consciousness in 1991, his body of work received renewed interest, leading to attempts by others to summarize and popularize his theories.
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.