Kendra is studying abroad and realizes that, compared with the local students she has befriended, she sometimes remembers events differently than they do. Perhaps Kendra's preexisting are affecting the way she encodes experiences.

schemas                                                                      

Explanation:

Schemas: In cognitive science and psychology, the term "schema" is determined as a specific pattern of an individual's behavior or thought that generally develops certain categories of particular pieces of information and the existing relationships in-between them.

In other words, the schema is described as a conceptual system or a generalized description that helps an individual to understand the knowledge and the way knowledge is being described and the process of its utilization.

In the question above, the given statement signifies the "schemas".

c. wright mills's sociological imagination suggest investigating to explain this increase?