ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews a recent models of the organization of traditional stories and a discussion of the relationship between story structure and the cognitive schemata that a listener or reader might use in processing stories. The terminal elements are instantiated in a particular story by specific states and events, which are typically expressed as sentences or parts of sentences in the surface structure of a story. The Bears story and the Pigs story were selected because subjects could be expected to be familiar with them prior to the experiment. To examine the pattern of representation of nodes in each story, the percentage of subjects explicitly representing each node was calculated for each task. The model proposed by Johnson & Mandler, which provides the theoretical background for the developmental study. The Development is the most complex constituent in a simple Episode. It most frequently takes the form of a complex reaction followed by a goal path.
