Which of the following students is using encoding specificity to remember a term from a botany textbook?
a) Alex remembers the term because it was defined in text that was next to a photograph of a beautiful fern
b) James remembers the term because it has a Latin root that he is familiar with.
c) Chris remembers the term because it rhymes with a word he already knows.
d) David remembers the term because he came across it recently in a journal article.
A
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