Dr.Rogers meets one of his students at a local shopping mall and he cannot recall her name. However,when he sees her in class the next Monday morning,he immediately recalls that her name is Juanita.Which theory of forgetting best explains Dr.Roger's memory lapse?

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Dr.Rogers meets one of his students at a local shopping mall and he cannot recall her name.  However,when he sees her in class the next Monday morning,he immediately recalls that her name is Juanita.Which theory of forgetting best explains Dr.Roger's memory lapse?

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Cue-dependent forgetting suggests that memory retrieval is improved when the same cues present at the time of encoding are present at the time of retrieval. In this case, Dr. Rogers saw Juanita in a different context (shopping mall) without the cues that would trigger her name, but when he saw her in class (with the appropriate cues), her name was readily retrieved.

DrRogers Meets One of His Students at a Local Shopping