In an experiment, participants were shown ambiguous pictures and then given a label for them. Later they were asked to draw the pictures they had been shown, and their drawings tended to more closely resemble the labels given by the experimenter than the original pictures. This is an example of __________ altering memory.
A. semantic memory networks
B. mnemonic strategies
C. spreading activation
D. schemas
Answer: D
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