When Mika sees the supermarket cashier while she is in the ticket line at the theater,Mika recognizes her but cannot remember how she know her.To what can this phenomenon most likely be attributed?
A)a repressed memory.
B)the absence of an engram.
C)encoding specificity.
D)the existence of a prototype.

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This phenomenon can be attributed to encoding specificity, which refers to the idea that memory retrieval can be impacted by the external environment in which encoding occurred. In this case, seeing the cashier in a different context (the theater) than where Mika originally encoded her memory of her (the supermarket) may have led to difficulty in retrieving the memory.

When Mika Sees the Supermarket Cashier While She Is in the Ticket