Godden and Baddeley (1975)demonstrated that scuba divers who memorized a list of words on the deck of a boat subsequently remembered more of those words when tested:
A)on the deck of the boat.
B)deep under water.
C)swimming on the surface of the water.
D)in a classroom with ocean scenery on the walls.

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The experiment showed that context-dependent memory is stronger when the recall setting matches the encoding setting. Therefore, the divers are more likely to remember the words when they are tested in the same location where they memorized them, i.e., on the deck of the boat.

Godden and Baddeley (1975)demonstrated That Scuba Divers Who Memorized a List