A phone schema is a specific event schema that involves the habit of checking our phones in many different situations. This ingrained behavior makes refraining from checking phones while driving especially difficult, leading psychologists to look for ways to interrupt this schema.

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An event schema, also known as a habit, is a cognitive framework that dictates behavior in specific situations, such as automatically facing the door when entering an elevator. Event schemata are powerful forces in our understanding of the world, making many habits difficult to break once they have been acquired.

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Spielman, R. M., Jenkins, W. J., & Lovett, M. D. (2020, April 22). Psychology (2nd ed.). OpenStax. https://openstax.org/books/psychology-2e/pages/1-introduction

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Phone Schema

Describe an event schema that you would notice at a sporting event.

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Explain why event schemata have so much power over human behavior.

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