Nadia conducted an empirical study on cognitive schema and reconstructive memory. Participants spent 45 seconds waiting inside a professional chef's kitchen. Afterwards, they were unexpectedly asked to recall as many objects from the kitchen as possible. The room contained an equal number of schema-consistent (typical kitchen utensils) and schema-inconsistent (atypical) items.
| Object category | Schema-consistent (typical kitchen items) | Schema-inconsistent (atypical kitchen items) |
|---|---|---|
| Mean number of objects recalled | 12.6 | 3.2 |
Analyse Nadia's results in Table 1 to explain whether they support a prediction based on the theory of reconstructive memory.
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