Exactly three years ago today, Denise was eating lunch with two friends at a restaurant when a very confused man came into the restaurant and began firing a gun at the pictures hanging on the walls. Denise remembers many details of that day, including the clothes she was wearing and what she ate for lunch. Denise has such clear memories of that day partly because those memories are characterized by a high degree of:

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Distinctive memories are those that stand out from other memories due to their uniqueness or unusual nature. The traumatic experience of being in a restaurant during a shooting incident is likely to create distinctive memories, making it easier for Denise to remember the details of the event.

Answer: D 
 State-dependent retrieval refers to the phenomenon where memories are more easily retrieved when a person's internal state is similar to the state they were in when the memory was formed. Denise may be able to retrieve her memories of the shooting more easily if she is in a similar emotional state as she was during the incident. However, this is not the most accurate choice in this scenario since there is no information about Denise's current state.

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