INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE ORGANIZATION OF SCRIPTS

We examined three hypotheses concerned with typical and atypical scrip t actions by means of an association technique called the phrase compl etion task. The first hypothesis stares that script-typical actions ar e sequentially organized. This hypothesis could not be confirmed unequ ivocally. The second hypothesis states that typical script actions are part of superordinate scenes or categories. The results distinctively support this hypothesis. The third hypothesis states that atypical sc ript-relevant events are part of the generic knowledge structure. The data confirm this hypothesis, too. Finally, possible disadvantages of the phrase completion task are discussed.