Your best friend is an airline pilot. you often ask him about his flying experiences, but the stories he tells are rather bland. one day he invites you to accompany him on a flight. surprisingly, once you are up in the air, he begins to share with you all kinds of interesting stories. what is the best explanation for this change? state-dependent learningencoding specificitycontext-dependent learningmood-dependent learning

Context-dependent learning.

Explanation:

Context-dependent learning may be defined as a type of the learning that depends on the improved record of the multiple episodes. This learning depends on  encoding specificity principle.

The airline pilot has lost the memory of the flying experience but when he is flying he memorizes all his experience. This is a type of context-dependent learning as the individual memorize the lost things and later recover it when experiences the same condition.

Thus, the answer is context-dependent learning.