Excerpt from Probation Officers' Schemas of Offenders: Content, Development, and Impact on Treatment Decisions<br><br>The introduction of schemas and other concepts representing the organization of knowledge (prototypes, scripts, frames), into social psychology has generated widespread interest and research Hastie, 1981; Taylor Crocker, Using these concepts, researchers have been able both to represent aspects of knowledge, including consistency, relevance, ahd implicit theories (fiske, 1981) and to describe with the same language the processes that draw on given information (bower, Black, Turner, 1979; Cantor Mischel, Substantial progress has been made in identifying how schemas guide the acquisition, encoding, and recall of information, and the' inferences generated from that information.<br><br>Although the schema literature has blossomed in the past few years.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.