Earlier in the chapter you were asked, “What
is your war-on-terror schema?” Informationprocessing theory predicts that you did not
spend much cognitive energy on that question at the time because you applied the
example-posed-as-a-question heuristic. But
now take a moment to answer the question.
Much of this country’s internal politics have
been driven by the war on terror, and much
American foreign policy is based on those
politics. In other words, the war on terror
warrants your systematic cognitive effort.
So again, what is your war-on-terror schema
and from what experiences has it been
constructed?