Sir Frederick C. Bartlett found that participants in his study tended to reconstruct memories based on ______ biases.

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Bartlett found that participants' reconstructed memories were influenced by their cultural biases, such as their preconceptions and expectations of events based on their cultural background. Bartlett's study involved asking participants to recall a Native American story they had read, and he observed that the participants tended to modify the story to fit their own cultural schemas. The study demonstrated that memory is not a simple replay of past events, but rather a constructive process influenced by various contextual factors.