If your recognition of the mugger is influenced by the clothes, race, or "attitude" of the people in a lineup because they fit your idea of "criminal," you are demonstrating the role of:
A)schemas in memory
B)elaboration in memory
C)interference in memory
D)encoding specificity in memory

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Schemas are mental frameworks that organize knowledge about specific topics, such as a "criminal." They can influence how we encode, store, and retrieve information, and can lead to biases in perception and memory. Therefore, if your recognition of the mugger is influenced by your pre-existing schema of what a criminal looks or acts like, you are demonstrating the role of schemas in memory.

If Your Recognition of the Mugger Is Influenced by the Clothes