E: When we are in one room, we remember to get something but when we get to the next room we forget but going back to the first room makes us remember again
E: recalling the environment may help us to recall what we forgot
L: therefore research has real application
research support
P: strength - research support
E: lack of cues may lead to context-dependent and state-dependent views
E: retrieval failure may be the main reason for forgetting
L: therefore evidence to support retrieval failure
counterpoint
P: limitation - context effects not strong in real life
E: hard to find environment as different as land and underwater
E: remembering something in one room and recalling it in a different room unlikely to lead to forgetting as environment not different enough
L: therefore retrieval failure due to contextual cues not relevant to real life
recall vs recognition
P: limitation - context effect depends on the type of memory being tested
E: underwater experiment repeated using recognition of words from a list instead of recalling
E: no context-dependent forgetting happened and performance was the same in all situations
