Question

Coreen was taking her driving test at the department of transportation office so she could renew her license. when she came upon the last question, she couldn't remember the answer. she paused to think and then started reviewing the previous questions for clues to the answer to the last question. since that strategy didn't work, she started looking around the office for clues on the wall posters and windows. the poster on the wall nearest to her jogged her memory and helped her to answer the last question. the poster on the wall served as a(n) _____

Answer 1

The poster on the wall served for Coreen as a "retrieval cue".

Retrieval cues are pushes or inducements (stimuli),  that assistance you recover a specific memory. When we are in the formation process of new memories we take in various situations to process the information and then any of those stimulus can help us recover the memory.