Someone who is shown a picture of Babe Ruth and then asked to complete the word -ball will be more likely to respond "baseball" than "football" or "basketball," illustrating the effects of:
A)state-dependent retrieval.
B)conceptual priming.
C)perceptual priming.
D)encoding specificity.

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This scenario illustrates the effects of conceptual priming, where the presentation of a stimulus (in this case, a picture of Babe Ruth) primes the brain for related concepts (in this case, baseball). State-dependent retrieval refers to the phenomenon where information is better recalled when the individual is in the same state or mood as when the information was encoded. Perceptual priming refers to the phenomenon where the presentation of one stimulus affects the processing of a subsequent, related stimulus. Encoding specificity refers to the idea that retrieval is better when the cues present at retrieval match those present at encoding.

Someone Who Is Shown a Picture of Babe Ruth and Then