In both the "professor's office" study and the study about "Jack" performing everyday activities:
A) participants experienced compelling false memories about details that would have been consistent with the situation.
B) forgetting was primarily the result of proactive interference.
C) participants' memories were highly accurate with little or no evidence of false memory formation.
D) participants who were given scripts remembered more, and were more accurate in their level of recall, than those given schemas.

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In both studies, participants experienced false memories about details that would have been consistent with the situation. In the "professor's office" study, participants recalled details like a bookshelf or a poster that were not actually present, while in the "Jack" study, participants recalled details like Jack wearing a baseball cap or carrying a backpack, even though he had not done so in the video they had watched.

In Both the "Professor's Office" Study and the Study About