Your best friend is an airline pilot. You often ask her about her flying experiences, but the stories she tells are rather bland. One day she invites you to accompany her on a flight

Surprisingly, after you are up in the air, she begins to share with you all kinds of interesting stories. What is the best explanation for this change?
a) state-dependent learning
b) elaborative specificity
c) context-dependent learning
d) mood-dependent learning

ANS: C, Context-dependent learning refers to our tendency to remember information better when the context in which we learned it matches the context in which we recall it.