Question

Recall that Harold Kelley (1950) told some college students that their guest instructor was a warm person, and others that he was a cold person. Students who were told that the guest instructor was a warm person evaluated him more positively and participated more in class discussion than did students who were told that he was cold. These results support the idea that schemas are__________________.

Answer 1

Answer:

specific to the situation in which we find ourselves.              

Explanation:

Schema: In psychology, the term schema is defined as an individual's cognitive framework that helps him or her to interpret and organize a piece of particular information. It also leads an individual to ignore or avoid certain information and look for only those things that conform to his or her formerly present ideas and beliefs.

Through schema, an individual tends to knows what should he or she expect from a specific situation or experience.

In the question above, the given statement's results support the idea that schemas are specific to the situation in which we find ourselves.