Investigators were asking employees at a construction site what they were doing last Tuesday, at 10:00 A.M.. Some of the workers were having a difficult time remembering details until the foreman reminded them that the foundations for the building were poured that morning. If the workers are now able to recall details of their actions, what has the foreman done?

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The foreman successfully reinstated the context by reminding the workers about the foundations being poured that morning, which helped the workers remember details of their actions at that time. This is a type of context-dependent memory that relies on environmental cues to activate memory traces.

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