Students are asked to learn a list of 40 unrelated words. Later, the students are asked to recall the words either in the same classroom where they learned the words or in a separate classroom, their retrieval is better if the retrieval environment was the same as the encoding environment at the time of learning. This is a demonstration of which of the following?

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This scenario is an example of the encoding specificity principle, which suggests that memory is improved when information available at the time of retrieval is similar to the information present at the time of encoding.

Students Are Asked to Learn a List of 40 Unrelated