Research shows that people who learned a list of words while in a happy mood recalled them better when they were again happy.People who learned the list while sad remembered best when they were sad.This illustrates
A)state-dependent learning.
B)eidetic imagery.
C)repression.
D)regressive imagery.

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State-dependent learning refers to the phenomenon where memory retrieval is best when the individual is in the same state (mood, physiological arousal level) as they were when they encoded the information. In this case, people remembered the list of words better when they were in the same emotional state as they were when they learned the list, which is an example of state-dependent learning. Eidetic imagery is not related to this phenomenon, repression refers to unconscious forgetting of traumatic events, and regressive imagery refers to the use of hypnosis to recover forgotten memories.

Research Shows That People Who Learned a List of Words