Question

A cross-country driver decides to eat at a local restaurant she has never heard of. She walks in and sees a counter that contains cash register machines; a menu hangs above the counter. Behind the counter, employees wearing headsets and paper hats hustle to and fro, pulling food from a service window and placing it onto trays. These images will most likely trigger a ________ that will lead the traveler to believe she should ________.

a. semantic association; order at the counter and then seat herself.
b. semantic association; wait by the door until a host shows her to her seat where a waiter will take her order.
c. schema; order at the counter and then seat herself.
d. schema; wait by the door until a host shows her to her seat where a waiter will take her order.

Answer 1

c. schema; order at the counter and then seat herself.

Step-by-step explanation:

Schema: In cognitive science or psychology, the term schema is described as a particular pattern of an individual's behavior or thoughts that tend to organize and develop different categories of specific information and distinct relationships between them. Schema is considered as an individual's mental structures that a person uses to create knowledge related to different things and represents cognitive processes.

Example: Stereotypes, social schemas, archetypes, scripts, etc.

In the question above, the correct option is "C".