Nt1310 Unit 1 Assignment

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1. What does your schema tell you about what to expect in a typical classroom setting? Include expectations about both the physical classroom setting itself as well as expected behaviors of students and teachers.

My schema- “mental structures people use to organize their knowledge about the social world around themes or subjests and that influence the information people notice, think about, and remember.” (Aronson, Wilson, & Akert, 2016, p. 49)would tell me from memory, that a typical high school biology classroom setting would contain, desks, chairs, books, paper, writing utensils, a board of some kind to write on and computers. There is also lab equipment, such as test tubes, microscopes, beakers, and flasks. The room consists of walls, tile floors, sinks, lights and perhaps a window. The classroom also includes a knowledgeable and enthusiastic teacher ready to instruct her students and a classroom of inquisitive students who are prepared, alert and ready to learn.

2. Mary struggles with insomnia. Her teacher just came from a parent-teacher conference regarding a student in another class who she believes is lazy and disrespectful. Contrast how Mary and her teacher will each be primed to think about Tim’s behavior and why.

The schema that comes to mind and guides Mary’s impression of Tim can be affected by accessibility,
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With this type of behavior from the teacher toward Tim, he is less likely to achieve excellence and his performance will be poor. Therefore Tim is likely to receive a poor grades at the end of the term. (Aronson, Wilson, & Akert, 2016) The teacher has an expectation about Tim, which will influence how the teacher will act toward him, which will cause Tim to behave consistently with the teacher’s expectations of himself and making these expections come