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. suppression.
d. regressive imagery.
ANSWER: a
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