Abby is participating in an experiment in which she has to learn a list of words in a red room and then is tested either in the same red room or in a blue room.What are the investigators most likely studying?
A)memory span.
B)rehearsal.
C)encoding specificity.
D)metamemory.

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The study is investigating encoding specificity, which refers to the theory that memory retrieval is most effective when the conditions at the time of retrieval match those at the time of encoding. The fact that Abby is being tested in either the same red room or in a different blue room suggests that the investigators are trying to determine whether the environmental cues present during learning (i.e., the red room) have an impact on memory retrieval.

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