Monica skipped lunch today and is now very hungry. Suddenly she remembers the day she was preparing for some medical tests and could not eat anything and how hungry she felt then. Her present hunger triggered a past memory of when she was very hungry, which suggests that memory is

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State-dependent memory occurs when an individual's internal state (such as hunger) at the time of encoding a memory matches their internal state at the time of recall, making the memory more accessible. Monica's current hunger triggering a memory of a past experience of hunger is an example of state-dependent memory.

Monica Skipped Lunch Today and Is Now Very Hungry