You get up from your study room to get something from the kitchen. Once you get to the kitchen, you can't seem to remember what you were going to get. Frustrated, you give up and head back to study. As soon as you enter your study room, you suddenly remember what you were going to get from the kitchen! Which concept BEST explains what you just experienced?

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

This phenomenon is best explained by context-dependent learning, which suggests that the context (or environment) in which information is learned acts as a cue for memory retrieval. Returning to the original context (the study room) helped trigger the memory of what was needed from the kitchen.

You Get Up from Your Study Room to Get Something