In remembering your wife's wedding gown,you distinctly remember it being covered with lace (in reality it was only half covered).In addition,you distinctly remember renting a Ford (it was a Chevy)and spending your wedding night in a Holiday Inn (it was actually a Marriott Hotel).This is all evidence for which account of forgetting?
A) decay theory
B) interference theory
C) motivated forgetting
D) schema theory

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This is evidence of schema theory, which suggests that memories are influenced by our pre-existing knowledge and expectations. In this case, the person's schema or mental representation of a typical wedding may have filled in the gaps of their memory with details that were consistent with their schema, such as lace on the wedding gown, a Ford car, and a stay at a Holiday Inn.

In Remembering Your Wife's Wedding Gown,you Distinctly Remember It Being