Pause & Reflect Excecise: Your Perceptual Schema

1. Identify which of the five general types of organizing schema (i.e., appearance, social roles, interaction style, psychological traits, or membership) you would use to classify people in each of the following contexts. After you’ve selected a primary organizing schema, offer a personal description within each type (e.g., attractive roughly the same age as me). a. Spending time with new acquaintances at a party b. socializing with fellow workers on the job c. choosing teammates for an important class project d. Offering help to a stranded motorist 2. For each of the given contexts, consider: a. Other schema you might use b. the consequences of using the schema you originally chose and the alternative you identified in the preceding step. c. In general, how might your relationship change if you used different constructs?