What concept suggests that the best place to study for your psychology final to ensure good retrieval of concepts is your psychology classroom?
A) encoding specificity
B) serial position effect
C) tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
D) automatic encoding

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Encoding specificity suggests that information is better retrieved when the context in which it was learned matches the context in which it is being retrieved. Therefore, studying in the same environment (the psychology classroom) in which the information was learned (during psychology class) will lead to better retrieval of concepts during the psychology final.

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