Brewer and Treyens (1981) asked people to remember details from a waiting room.The participants recalled:
A)more schema-neutral material than schema-adverse material.
B)more schema-consistent information than schema-neutral information.
C)mostly falsely recalled the schema-consistent information.
D)failed to use lexical memory when retrieving the relevant information.

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Brewer and Treyens found that participants recalled more schema-consistent information than schema-neutral information. This suggests that people rely on their pre-existing schemas to help them make sense of new information and to remember it.

Brewer and Treyens (1981) Asked People to Remember Details from a Waiting