In a study in which participants were asked to recall details about a psychology professor's office, many participants erroneously remembered objects that were not in the office but that did fit their schema of a typical professor's office.

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This phenomenon is known as schema-driven memory and has been observed in various studies where people tend to fill in the gaps of incomplete or vague information based on their existing schema or mental framework.

In a Study in Which Participants Were Asked to Recall