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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By reminding the workers that the foundations for the building were poured that morning, the foreman successfully reinstated the context, which helped the workers remember details of their actions. Reinstating context is an effective memory retrieval technique that involves putting oneself back in the same physical and emotional surroundings where the memory was created.

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