When 80-year-old ida looked at her old wedding pictures, she was flooded with vivid memories of her parents, her husband, and the early years of her marriage. the pictures served as powerful?

They were retrieval cues that allowed Ida to recall many memories from her earlier years. These cues are often single events or images that bring back, with exacting detail, parts of a person's life that might have been forgotten had the events not been captured for posterity.