Cognitive Perspective
-After several years away, Valerie has an opportunity to visit her childhood home. Walking into her childhood bedroom, she vividly remembers a fun game she played with her sisters as a child that she had completely forgotten about. What type of remembering this?

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Spontaneous recovery refers to the sudden recovery of a memory that has been long lost. Spontaneous memory is almost always linked to a cue. In this example, Valerie's childhood bedroom is the cue to the spontaneous recovery. Spontaneous recovery differs from repression in that the forgetting is not a means of self-protection.

Cognitive Perspective -After Several Years Away, Valerie Has an Opportunity to Visit