Two groups of participants read identical stories that differed in their endings: meeting a new person and having the story end in a marriage proposal, a rape scenario, or, as a control, a neutral ending (Carli, 1999). People __________
a. showed no difference in the accuracy of their recall for story elements
b. in both experimental groups reported "being able to predict" how the story would end
c. in both experimental groups illustrated undoing effects
d. showed evidence for semantic congruency effects in recall
Answer: b
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