State-Dependent+Memory+Effect

toc = Definition: = The tendency to recall information better if one is in the same phamacological or psychological state as when the infomation was encoded. Gen Psych, Ch 6, pp. 177

= Examples: = When researchers exposed college students to spiders and/or snakes when they were learning a list of words, the students recalled more words when the creatures were present during test of recall (p. 177)

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