Tiffany's class takes a field trip to the zoo and afterwards she must write a one-page paper on the experience. Tiffany cannot recall enough details from the day to fill an entire page, so she decides to use her schema of "zoo" to help. Which of the following best illustrates this process?

A. Tiffany writes the word "zoo" over and over to facilitate recall of the field trip memories from her long-term memory.
B. Tiffany stares at a picture of a zoo until she can retrieve additional memories about the trip from her sensory memory.
C. Tiffany repeats the word "zoo" until she eventually remembers other animals she saw during the trip.
D. Tiffany includes animals she associates with the zoo, even though she didn't see all of them during her trip.


Answer: D

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