Lauren told her husband about her recent trip to their neighborhood's new hardware store. In this description, she recalled seeing the store's tools section even though she never actually visited this section of the store. Lauren's memory of the tools is best explained as
A. the result of the tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) phenomenon.
B. a result of her schema about hardware stores.
C. the result of a highly superior autobiographical memory.
D. a failure of priming.
Answer: B
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