INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES IN BEHAVIORAL PREDICTION - THE ACQUISITION OF PERSONAL-ACTION SCHEMATA

It is proposed that memory schemata connect information about a single individual's mannerisms, traits, and other characteristics to the lik elihood of that individual's acting in a particular fashion. Such sche mata could account for certain categorization errors in which inapprop riate generalizations are made in the course of predicting the likelih ood of a person's action. The study examines learning of such personal -action schemata, and evidence supportive of such schemata are obtaine d. Theoretical implications for clinical transference are considered.