Bartlett's research asked participants to recall a story at various points after they first

read it. The results indicated that

a. people tend to remember the gist of most stories.
b. the remembering of any story is very specific to the events in the story.
c. people tend to reconstruct missing portions of a story based on their expectations.
d. remembering the details of a story is easier than remembering the details of major
historical events.
e. reports of a story are affected by the strength of the adjectives and verbs it included.

c. people tend to reconstruct missing portions of a story based on their expectations.