The critical factor in state-dependent retrieval is the influence of:
A)a person's biological state at the time of studying.
B)external environmental cues in a particular context.
C)the person's mood at the time a memory is encoded and retrieved.
D)misinformation.

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State-dependent retrieval is the phenomenon where people remember more information if their current mood and state at the time of retrieval matches their mood and state at the time of encoding. This means that the critical factor in state-dependent retrieval is the influence of a person's mood at the time a memory is encoded and retrieved. Therefore, the correct answer is C - the person's mood at the time a memory is encoded and retrieved.

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