When shown a fictional list of common African American and common European names,subjects tended to "remember" more African American names as connected with criminality.This type of memory distortion is most related to:
A) reconstruction (schema)theory.
B) retroactive interference.
C) motivated forgetting.
D) repression.

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Reconstruction (schema) theory suggests that our prior knowledge and experiences influence the way we encode, store and retrieve new information. In this case, the subjects' pre-existing schema or stereotype about African Americans being associated with criminality may have influenced their memory recall, causing them to "remember" more African American names as connected with criminality. Retroactive interference, motivated forgetting and repression are not as relevant to this type of memory distortion.

When Shown a Fictional List of Common African American and Common