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Congruent memory (also called [
When this phenomenon shows up in fiction, it's often played for comedy: Usually a character will have to precisely replicate the circumstances in which he or she learned something in order to be able to recall it, or the circumstances themselves will be somewhat bizarre (or both).
Obviously [[Reality Is Unrealistic]], because while this is a legitimate idea in modern psychology, it's never taken to the [[Up to Eleven|absurd levels that fiction shows]].
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