While sitting at the kitchen table,Jenna thought of an extremely funny joke.She walked into the living room to call her best friend,Cynthia.Unfortunately,on her way there,she forgot the punch line of the joke.To help herself remember,she went back to the kitchen table and remembered the line.What helped jog Jenna's memory?
A)chunking
B)maintenance rehearsal
C)encoding specificity
D)the flashbulb effect

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Encoding specificity is a theory that declares that our memory recall is better when the context or environmental cues during encoding and retrieval are similar. In this situation, Jenna was able to remember the punch line once she returned to the same location where she thought of it.

While Sitting at the Kitchen Table,Jenna Thought of an Extremely