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NClaborn · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Suppose that some research participants are asked to remember a story. Furthermore, this story contains some particularly vivid and surprising material that is not consistent with a standard schema. The participants would be most likely

a. to show spreading activation to schema-inconsistent material.
b. to emphasize prototypical information.
c. to prefer scripts to schemas.
d. to recall the schema-inconsistent material.

Question 2

Chapter 8 described a study in which participants stayed briefly in an office. Later, their recall showed that

a. when people have a schema for a scene, their recall is typically accurate.
b. people with little expertise on a topic are likely to have particularly clear-cut schemas for that topic.
c. people are likely to recall objects and events that are consistent with the schema.
d. schemas usually reduce our memory accuracy.