This study explores the evolving expectations of undergraduate interns from a psychological contract schema theory perspective over time. Psychological contracts have been conceptualised as type schema, which is mental model or construct through individuals filter and understand social life. Scholarly endeavours focused heavily on negative effects mismanaged contracts. Less insight available pr...

This article discusses the traditional image schema theory, which is J. Lakoff and M. Johnson’s conceptual. Although it was introduced several decades ago, certain clarifications refinements must be made to its framework key terms in response latest advance cognitive science. In particular, questions have been raised about properties of an schema, such as bringing together different types perce...

In most suggested systems aiming to enable interoperability and collaboration among heterogeneous databases, schema matching and integration is performed manually. The SASMINT system introduced in this paper proposes a (semi-) automated approach to tackle the following: 1) identification of the syntactic/semantic/structural similarities between the donor and recipient schemas to resolve their h...

This study uses the Implicit Associations Test (IAT; Greenwald, McGhee & Schwartz, 1998) to examine the effectiveness of assessing gender self-concept using a two-dimensional model (in which it is possible to score high on both masculinity and femininity) versus a one-dimensional model (in which masculinity and femininity are opposite ends of a bipolar scale). The researchers expected that the ...

Cheng and Holyoak (1985) proposed that realistic reasoning in deontic contexts is based on pragmatic schemas such as those for assessing compliance with or violation of permission and obligation rules, and that the evocation of these schemas can facilitate performance in Wason's (1966) selection task. A number of investigators have since obtained evidence that the dominant pattern of selections...

Presently, designers of interactive narratives and video games have only a slender understanding of the aesthetic experiences their audiences and users seek. Using schema theory, this study articulates the two varieties of aesthetic pleasures that users of interactive works enjoy: immersion and engagement. It uses schema theory to define the characteristics of immersion and engagement in both c...

Progress of research into user interfaces to database systems has been slow in comparison to that in other areas of database theory. Whilst interfaces for non-expert access to database systems have been well catered for, little work has been undertaken in allowing end-users to develop their own interfaces. The work in this paper addresses this problem by developing the necessary theory to allow...

This paper* describes an innovative model of long term memory (SALT -Schema-Associative Long Term memory). It also presents an implementation of the SALT model, a specification of an agent, and some scenarios of interactions with the agent. The model presented has its roots in two of the most important general theories of human memory, namely the associative network theory and the schema-based ...