Behavioral script
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In the behaviorism
approach to psychology, behavioral scripts are a sequence of expected behaviors for a given situation. For example, when an individual enters a restaurant they choose a table, order, wait, eat, pay the bill, and leave. People continually follow scripts which are acquired through habit, practice and simple routine
. Following scripts is useful because it saves the time and mental effort of figuring out an appropriate behavior each time a situation is encountered.
encourages a strong degree of behavioral scripts to be utilized within everyday interactions with others, and sociocultural norms dictate that humans utilize behavioral scripts.
Some people may have a tendency to habituate behavioral scripts in a manner that can act to limit consciousness in a subliminal manner, which can negatively influence or affect the subconscious
mind, and subsequently negatively affect perceptions, judgments, values, beliefs, cognition
and behavior
. For example, over-reliance upon behavioral scripts combined with social norms
that encourage people to utilize behavioral scripts may encourage people to stereotype
others based on socioeconomic status
, ethnicity, race, etc., and then subsequently develop prejudice
toward other people that becomes subconsciously psychologically habituated and then manifested into personal behavioral scripts.
Some applied behavior analysts use scripts to train new skills. Some 20 years of research supports it as an effective way to build new language, social, and activity routines for adults and children with developmental disabilities. With language scripts fading procedures are used and efforts are made to get the scripts to recombine to approximate more natural language.
Behaviorism
Behaviorism , also called the learning perspective , is a philosophy of psychology based on the proposition that all things that organisms do—including acting, thinking, and feeling—can and should be regarded as behaviors, and that psychological disorders are best treated by altering behavior...
approach to psychology, behavioral scripts are a sequence of expected behaviors for a given situation. For example, when an individual enters a restaurant they choose a table, order, wait, eat, pay the bill, and leave. People continually follow scripts which are acquired through habit, practice and simple routine
Routine
Routine may refer to:*Subroutine in computer science*Choreographed routine, orchestrated dance involving several performers*Comedy routine, comedic act or part of an act*Visual routine, visual cognitive means of extracting information from a scene...
. Following scripts is useful because it saves the time and mental effort of figuring out an appropriate behavior each time a situation is encountered.
Psychology
Social structureSocial structure
Social structure is a term used in the social sciences to refer to patterned social arrangements in society that are both emergent from and determinant of the actions of the individuals. The usage of the term "social structure" has changed over time and may reflect the various levels of analysis...
encourages a strong degree of behavioral scripts to be utilized within everyday interactions with others, and sociocultural norms dictate that humans utilize behavioral scripts.
Some people may have a tendency to habituate behavioral scripts in a manner that can act to limit consciousness in a subliminal manner, which can negatively influence or affect the subconscious
Subconscious
The term subconscious is used in many different contexts and has no single or precise definition. This greatly limits its significance as a definition-bearing concept, and in consequence the word tends to be avoided in academic and scientific settings....
mind, and subsequently negatively affect perceptions, judgments, values, beliefs, cognition
Cognition
In science, cognition refers to mental processes. These processes include attention, remembering, producing and understanding language, solving problems, and making decisions. Cognition is studied in various disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, linguistics, and computer science...
and behavior
Behavior
Behavior or behaviour refers to the actions and mannerisms made by organisms, systems, or artificial entities in conjunction with its environment, which includes the other systems or organisms around as well as the physical environment...
. For example, over-reliance upon behavioral scripts combined with social norms
Norm (sociology)
Social norms are the accepted behaviors within a society or group. This sociological and social psychological term has been defined as "the rules that a group uses for appropriate and inappropriate values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors. These rules may be explicit or implicit...
that encourage people to utilize behavioral scripts may encourage people to stereotype
Stereotype
A stereotype is a popular belief about specific social groups or types of individuals. The concepts of "stereotype" and "prejudice" are often confused with many other different meanings...
others based on socioeconomic status
Socioeconomic status
Socioeconomic status is an economic and sociological combined total measure of a person's work experience and of an individual's or family’s economic and social position in relation to others, based on income, education, and occupation...
, ethnicity, race, etc., and then subsequently develop prejudice
Prejudice
Prejudice is making a judgment or assumption about someone or something before having enough knowledge to be able to do so with guaranteed accuracy, or "judging a book by its cover"...
toward other people that becomes subconsciously psychologically habituated and then manifested into personal behavioral scripts.
Some applied behavior analysts use scripts to train new skills. Some 20 years of research supports it as an effective way to build new language, social, and activity routines for adults and children with developmental disabilities. With language scripts fading procedures are used and efforts are made to get the scripts to recombine to approximate more natural language.