Every winter when Billy drives to see his grandmother it is snowing outside. This year, it is unseasonably warm and there is no snow outside. The theory of encoding specificity suggests which of the following may happen?
A. Billy won't make the drive because without the snow as a cue he will be unable to retrieve any information from memory about the directions.
B. The change in weather will have no impact on how well Billy is able to retrieve the driving directions.
C. Billy will have difficulty remembering the directions because aspects of the snowy landscape usually served as retrieval cues.
D. Billy will remember the directions better now that the landscape has changed because all cues have been removed.
Answer: C
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