Remembering all the bad things about a significant other only when you are angry at him or her is an example of __________.
A) mood-dependent memory
B) mental bias
C) bipolar disorder
D) memory decay

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Mood-dependent memory refers to the phenomenon of remembering information better when our internal state at the time of encoding matches our state when we try to retrieve the information. In the given scenario, the individual remembers all the bad things about the significant other only when they are angry, which suggests that their angry mood is triggering the recall of negative experiences.

Remembering All the Bad Things About a Significant Other Only