Bill is standing in his living room and remembers that he needs to add an item to his grocery list (e.g. ,flour),but by the time he gets to the kitchen,he cannot remember what he needed to do.He walks back into his living room,hoping this will jog his memory.Bill is making use of which of the following processes?

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Bill is using encoding specificity, which suggests that memory is improved when information available at encoding is also available at retrieval. By returning to the living room, he is trying to recreate the context in which he initially remembered the task.

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