Schemas? Help please!?

Question

I have a social psyc paper due on puzzleing relationships. one of the questions i have to answer is What schemas are being used by one or another of the persons in the relationship? i have the defininition of schema but idk how to answer this question? help please?

Answer 1

1. Dr. Alfred Adler introduced the term "schema" to psychological thought while working with Freud to create psycho-analysis. Adler spoke of one's "apperceptive schema" as well as "subjectivism" (or "subjective perceptions") and so on. Read more about him at http://www.lifecourseinstitute.com



2. Another form that schemas take in sociology is through the "role theory" of Dr. George Herbert Mead. Here we have two "schemas," or points of view: Each person's ideas of how he/she should behave the role relationship, and the same person's ideas of how the other person should behave in their role relationship. These ideas take the form of "role expectations" or specific definitions of role behaviors that are assumed in the relationship. Thus "teacher" and "student" are each roles, and each has certain role-definitions that result in role expectations.



Conflict occurs when role-players fail to behave according to role definitions/expectations. The one who wants the other to behave "right" (and who is not behaving right!) does things to bring the misbehaving person into line: by punishments, complaints, teaching, etc.



You will want to Google Mead and role playing to learn more.



Best wishes...-- Dr. Bob

Answer 2

Well if a schema in short is a frame work of past experiences that allows one to believe what is normal. Then two people in a relationship are functioning on schema's that they have learned through watching their parents interact and from the general publics' view on relationships and how they are meant to function. For example one schema would be a boy watches his father illicit certain behaviors in a relationship with the mother like being supportive, protective ect. These experiences are stored in child's mind and help create the schema of what a man should be in a relationship. On the other hand if the father was abusive and mean the boy would have a more negative schema of what a man should be to a women. That is one theory to why sons of abusive fathers sometimes become abusers themselves.

Answer 3

You could say it's a schema that the woman cooks and cleans anything like that

while the man works and takes out the trash, fixes stuff around the house, etc..



The man asks out the woman, he pays, gives the girl gifts. anything like that