These scripts fall under the larger cognitive concept called schemas, which are organized chunks of information.
Roger Schank, Robert P. Abelson and their research group, extended Tomkins' scripts and used them in early artificial intelligence work as a method of representing procedural knowledge.
Schank, Abelson and their colleagues tackled some of the most difficult problems in artificial intelligence (i.e., story understanding), but ultimately their line of work ended without tangible success.
This type of work received little attention after the 1980s, but it is very influential in later knowledge representation techniques, such as case-based reasoning.
To deal with inflexibility, smaller modules called memory organization packets (MOP) can be combined in a way that is appropriate for the situation.