COM 225 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ellen Langer, Sify, Personalization
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What was the point of this experiment? (pp. 131-132: ellen langer conducted an experiment in which she put a group of old men in a monastery which was redesigned to look like the 1959s, i. e. - 20 years earlier. It wasn"t elder-friendly at all and pushed the old men to be self-competent. They read about current events and books, watched news and movies of the 1959 era. 138 140): schemata is the cognitive constructs we use to make sense of the world. We clas- sify and label others. ": what is a role schema? (pp. They are guides to action. for example - what to do next, how shall i proceed: what do the authors mean by sizing up situations? (pp. 140 -141: authors say that a competent communicator knows that the same kind of communication cant be used in all situations.
