Some suggest that students should study in a variety of places. This suggestion is based on research showing that people remember material better if they learned it in a number of different locations, compared to studying the same amount of time in one location. The suggestion solves a problem raised by
a. levels of processing.
b. the distributed practice effect.
c. the encoding specificity principle.
d. the spacing effect.
Answer: c. the encoding specificity principle.
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