These experiments investigate people's knowledge of routine activities (eg, eating in a
restaurant, visiting a dentist) and how that knowledge is organized and used to understand
and remember narrative texts. We use the term script to refer to these action stereotypes.
Two studies collected script norms: people described what goes on in detail during familiar
activities. They largely agreed on the nature of the characters, props, actions, and the order
of the actions. They also agreed on how to segment the low-level action sequences into�…