Participants Waited Briefly in a Psychology Professor's Office(pictured Below) and Were

Multiple Choice

Participants waited briefly in a psychology professor's office(pictured below) and were then taken to another room and asked to recall details of the office. The results showed thatmany participants erroneously remembered objects that were not actually present in the office. These memory errors were most likely the result of:

A) nervousness and apprehension that the participants experienced due to being left alone in the professor's office.
B) the use of schemas, which included items that would be consistent with a typical professor's office
C) imagination inflation as the participants vividly imagined being back in the professor's office during the recall test in the second room.
D) the misinformation effect because the room where the memory test took place had many false retrieval cues present.