In answering this question, the correct multiple-choice option may serve as a retrieval cue for recalling accurate information from your long-term memory.
Step-by-step explanation:
Retrieval cue helps us in remembering or recalling the information that is stored in our memory. The information stored in the long-term memory can be retrieved and brought them back to consciousness.
When we are trying to retrieve the information, the cue will give us a hint in retrieving the information correctly. One such example is multiple-choice option. While answering the question it will be easy the recollect the information stored in the memory with the help of multiple-choice option.