According to schema theory, people
A) mold memories to fit information that already exists in their minds.
B) store information as is without distortion.
C) remember only what is salient to them.
D) have a finite amount of brain storage space and must "weed out" old information to store new information.

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According to schema theory, people have pre-existing mental frameworks (schemas) that organize our knowledge about the world. When we encounter new information, we use these schemas to interpret and organize it, often molding our memories to fit the information into our pre-existing schema. This can lead to distortion and inaccuracies in our memories.

According to Schema Theory, People