Scripts, plans, goals and understanding, an inquiry into human knowledge structures: Roger C. Schank and Robert P. Abelson Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1977. 248 pp. £ 10.60 hardcover

By C. Welin. 1979

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology

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The Next Decade in AI: Four Steps Towards Robust Artificial Intelligence (2020, background): “Peter Norvig's dissertation on story understanding (Norvig, 1986) attempted to do something like this in a classic symbol-manipulation framework, as was much of Schank’s and Abelseon’s (Schank & Abelson, 1977) seminal work, but so far as I know story understanding is no longer an active current area”
Building a Stronger CASA: Extending the Computers Are Social Actors Paradigm (2020, background): “These social scripts are retained in memory and activated when relevant situations arise (Schank & Abelson, 1977).”
Script Analysis of the Hunting Process of Serial Sex Offenders (2007, background): “The concept of script is borrowed from the field of cognitive science (Schank & Abelson, 1977) and “is generally viewed as being a special type of schema, known as an event schema, since it organizes our knowledge about how to understand and enact commonplace behavioral processes or routines”…”
Updating Heider's balance theory in consumer behavior: A Jewish couple buys a German car and additional buying–consuming transformation stories (2001, methodology): “Schank (1990) and Schank and Abelson (1977) provide tools useful for collecting and understanding other people’ stories: in order to understand a story, it needs to be broken down into the conceptual actions underlying the events.”
Teaching and Learning Argumentation (2007, background): “Just like entering a new restaurant activates a restaurant schema (Schank & Abelson, 1977) abstracted from multiple prior experiences with eating out, an encounter with a task requiring the use of argumentation may trigger a set of cognitive and social practices that constitute an argument schema.”
Comic Cognition: Exploring the Potential Cognitive Impacts of Science Comics (2012, background): “Constructing a situation model involves schematic knowledge structures, or schemas, that contain placeholders for new information and support inference making (Schank & Abelson, 1977).”
Social and Musical Co-Ordination between Members of a String Quartet: An Exploratory Study (2002, background): “The nature of the interaction and coordination in conversation are, we believe, analogous to that in small group musicmaking contexts, although the musical score fixes the content of the communication far more than the scripts that structure social discourse (Schank and Abelson, 1977).”