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Lecture Notes

So as you were listening to that story, you no doubt developed a schema about his situation based on the details that you were reading. Two common schemas that really come up in the story is that Rocky's either in prison or that he's involved in a wrestling match, and what you can do is go back in the presentation and reread the story, this time using a different schema than the one that you first used, and see if those details look different to you, sound different evoke different sort of imagery; and also take note of how we do fill in information based on our schemas.