Recall of what you have learned is often improved when your physical surroundings at the time of retrieval and encoding are the same.This best illustrates
A) long-term potentiation.
B) memory consolidation.
C) context-dependent memory.
D) the serial position effect.

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Context-dependent memory refers to the phenomenon that memory recall is often better when the context of the original learning and the context of the retrieval match. This is because the context provides retrieval cues that can aid memory recall. The statement in the question describes this phenomenon. Long-term potentiation refers to a biological process underlying learning and memory, memory consolidation refers to the stabilization of a memory after it is stored, and the serial position effect refers to the tendency to better recall items at the beginning and end of a list.

Recall of What You Have Learned Is Often Improved When