Bartlett found that the parts of the stories created by people in his experiment were
A) of little interest to him.
B) often the very parts that they most adamantly claimed to have remembered.
C) the portion of the story that was most difficult to recall.
D) actually judged by Bartlett to be the easiest portion of the stories to recall.

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Bartlett found that people were more likely to remember the main idea or gist of the story rather than the specific details. However, when asked to recall the story, people often included details that were not present in the original story but were consistent with their expectations and cultural background. These details were often the same parts that they claimed to have remembered the most strongly, demonstrating the role of schema and cultural expectations in memory recall.

Bartlett Found That the Parts of the Stories Created by People