Eyewitnesses to a Crime Often Recall the Details of the Crime

question 142

Multiple Choice

Eyewitnesses to a crime often recall the details of the crime most accurately when they return to the scene of the crime.This best illustrates

• A) the serial position effect.
• B) memory consolidation.
• C) long-term potentiation.
• D) the encoding specificity principle.

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