While taking a tranquilizing drug as a treatment for a muscle spasm, you witnessed an automobile accident. Later, your memory of the incident was rather fuzzy, but when you began taking tranquilizers again for test anxiety, some of the memories returned. This would be an example of

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State-dependent memory refers to the phenomenon where memory retrieval is better when an individual is in the same state or condition as they were during encoding. In this case, the tranquilizers acted as a state or condition during encoding the memory of the automobile accident, and when the individual took the tranquilizers again for test anxiety, it acted as the same state, resulting in the retrieval of some memories of the accident.

While Taking a Tranquilizing Drug as a Treatment for a Muscle