It is highly questionable whether a childhood experience that was encoded using a toddler's sensorimotor schemes can be accurately retrieved using an adult's formal operational schemes.What memory principle could explain this retrieval problem?

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The encoding specificity principle suggests that memory is most effectively retrieved when the conditions at the time of encoding are similar to those at the time of retrieval. Since a toddler's sensorimotor schemes are quite different from an adult's formal operational schemes, retrieving memories encoded with the former using the latter would be difficult, explaining the retrieval problem.

It Is Highly Questionable Whether a Childhood Experience That Was