Dr. Miron teaches his Latin 101 students in the Arts and Humanities Building, room 207. He then gives them their final exam in the Science Hall, room 308. His students do rather poorly, possibly because Dr. Miron has not considered the effects of

A. context-specific memory.
B. the primacy effect.
C. parallel distributed processing.
D. mood congruent memory.


Answer: A

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