Dr James advises that if you study for your next psychology exam in the same room where you take the exam, your score will improve. He is basing this advice on
A)state-dependent learning.
B)recognition specificity.
C)context-dependent learning.
D)familiarity schemas.

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Dr James is referring to context-dependent learning, which is the phenomenon where information recall is improved when the context in which it was learned matches the context in which it is being recalled. This is why studying in the same room as the exam can improve scores. Thus, the correct answer is (C) context-dependent learning.

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