Roediger & McDermott (1995)did an experiment in which people were presented with lists of semantically related items and then (after a short interval filled with an arithmetic task)given a yes/no recognition test,which included critical lures among the items.Their work illustrated __________.
A)misinformation acceptance
B)repressed memories
C)implicit memory
D)false memories

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Roediger and McDermott's experiment demonstrated the phenomenon of false memories, where people remember items that were not actually presented but were semantically related to the presented items. This is a type of memory distortion where the brain creates false memories by integrating and reconstructing information from different sources.

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