Several students are arguing over the actual year that the Berlin wall came down.Some of the students think it was in 1990,several think it was in 1991,and one student thinks it may have been 1988.Seth confidently tells them it was in November 1989,because it came down the same week he won a statewide spelling bee.The fact that Seth is able to accurately recall the date illustrates the impact of
A) prospective memory processes.
B) self-referent encoding.
C) semantic encoding.
D) spreading activation in a semantic network.

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Seth's ability to recall the date accurately is due to self-referent encoding, where personal relevance enhances memory retention.

Several Students Are Arguing Over the Actual Year That the Berlin