At your 20th high school reunion, a group of your friends asks you if you remember a former classmate named Mike Parks. The name doesn't ring a bell, but as your friends begin to tell funny stories about the kind of things Mike used to do at school, you suddenly remember who he was. Your friends' stories of Mike served as a(n) _____ that prompted you to remember.

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Retrieval cues are stimuli that help you recall a memory. In this scenario, the stories your friends told acted as retrieval cues, helping you remember Mike Parks.

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