[1] Scripts include default standards for the actors, props, setting, and sequence of events that are expected to occur in a particular situation.
With this, semantic memory is known as the knowledge that people gain from experiencing events in the everyday world.
One such study, conducted by Bower, Black, and Turner in 1979,[3] asked participants to read 18 different scenarios, all of which represented a doctor’s office script.
Ultimately, Bower, Black, and Turner’s study suggested that scripts serve as a guide for a person’s recall and recognition for certain things that they already know.
[4] Some people may have a tendency to habituate behavioral scripts in a manner that can act to limit consciousness in a subliminal way.
For instance, Sirigu, Zalla, Pillon, Grafman, Agid, and Dubois (1995)[6] conducted a study on brain-damaged patients and their ability to access scripts that relate to a certain situation.
Within their study, they asked patients with brain-damage (particularly to their prefrontal cortex) to make as many scripts for different situations as they could and put them in their commonly known sequence.
Although with finding this, these researchers also found that patients with prefrontal brain damage had a difficult time putting in order or sequencing the events that happen within a script.