When you read the word "slice" on a list, you think of it as something you do to a golf ball. Later when someone asks you which word on the list means the same thing as "piece," you cannot remember. Why?

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The encoding specificity principle suggests that memory retrieval is most effective when the context at the time of retrieval matches the context at the time of encoding. In this scenario, the word "slice" was initially encoded as a golf term, which is a different context than the context of "piece". Therefore, it may be more difficult to retrieve the word "slice" as being synonymous with "piece" later on.

When You Read the Word "Slice" on a List, You