Recovering alcoholics tend to report a greater urge to drink when they visit places where they used to drink.This is partly the result of:
A)transience.
B)encoding specificity.
C)state-dependent storage.
D)state-dependent retrieval.

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Encoding specificity principle suggests that it is easier to recall information when the context at the time of encoding matches the context at the time of retrieval. In this case, visiting places where they used to drink triggers memories of drinking because the environmental cues are similar to those present when the memory of drinking was encoded.

Recovering Alcoholics Tend to Report a Greater Urge to Drink