In the classic research on inferences, Sir Frederick Bartlett told British students a Native American story. In this research, the students
a. had especially vivid memory for the details that did not match British folk tales.
b. had surprisingly strong verbatim memory for most of the information in the story.
c. initially omitted some details that did not match British folk tales, and they omitted even more of these unusual details several days afterwards.
d. had poor recall initially for most components of the story, but they recalled the details better several days afterwards.
Question 2
Suppose that a friend missed class and asks you to tell him, word for word, about the professor's description of the next assignment.
Your description captures the basic message, even though none of your sentences is precisely what your professor said. This phenomenon is a good example of
a. abstraction.
b. boundary extension.
c. change blindness.
d. a script.
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