In a classic study by Godden and Baddeley, scuba divers learned a list of 40 words either on land or 10 feet underwater. Later, divers were tested on recall either in the same environment where they learned the list or the opposite environment. Recall was significantly better when divers were tested in the same environment in which they had learned the words, regardless of whether that was on land or underwater.
These results most strongly support which memory phenomenon?
- A
State-dependent memory (encoding specific to internal mood)
- B
Proactive interference
- C
Mood-congruent memory
- Dcheck_circle
Context-dependent memory (encoding specificity for environmental cues)
Explanation
Context-dependent memory is the finding that recall is improved when the external environment at retrieval matches that of encoding. State-dependent memory involves matching internal physiological or emotional states.