According to the discussion of schemas in Chapter 8,
a. a schema applies to your generalized knowledge, such as knowledge about how to register for classes at your college.
b. a schema can be divided into smaller units of knowledge, called "scripts."
c. each person in a particular culture has a schema for an everyday event that is very different from other people's schemas for that event.
d. in most cases, a schema can be directly converted to an exemplar.
Ans: a
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