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If I had a lunch date with you and forgot about it,
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when I see you,
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"Oh, yeah. We were supposed to get together to have lunch."
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Retrieval cues bring things back
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but it's a little bit more complicated than that.
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There's a more general relationship between encoding and retrieval
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called the "compatibility principle."
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And what this means is
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you're much better to remember something in the context
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in which you have learned it.
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And this is also known as "context-dependent memory"
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and "state-dependent memory."