Study Questions: Frames, Scripts & Schemas

What is a frame?
What's the difference between an attribute and a value?
What is a default value?
Explain how frames address (at least) two weaknesses of prototype theory.
Can you give an example of an inference from daily life that a frame might support? Be sure to indicate what property or properties of frames are needed to explain your example. Explain why your example could or (more likely) could not be handled by a feature-based theory of concepts and categories.
Explain how frames are potentially compatible with exemplar models of categorization.
What is a script? How are scripts like frames?
What evidence from cognitive psychology suggests people actually use scripts? What evidence suggests they use schemas (that is, frames)?
How are MOPs different from scripts?
Why did Schank invent MOPs? (That is, what weakness or weaknesses motivated MOPs as knowledge structures underlying the comprehension of events?)
What is a TOP?
What is a TAU?
Explain how and why Rumelhart's connectionist frames might be used to account for Labov's findings about how people categorize cups and bowls.
What is a presupposition?
What is the presupposition in the following sentences:
She babysits for Rosemary's children.
The King of France is bald.
He knows the president of Serbia is corrupt.
Describe an experimental study that suggests that misleading presuppositions in questions about a recent event affect memory for that event.
Experiments that demonstrate how misleading questions about an event affect people's performance on tests of memory for that event are known as misinformation effects. What was the reverse misinformation effect reported by Lindsay and Johnson (1989)? What does the reverse misinformation effect suggest about memory for events that you've both witnessed and talked about?
How would schema theory explain the reverse misinformation effect discovered by Linsay and Johnson?