Imagine that you have studied for an exam in a noisy environment and your state of physiological arousal has been low while you were studying. If on the day of the exam you were given the test in a quiet environment and your physiological arousal was high (due to test anxiety), the concept of state-dependent memory would predict that your recall would be poor and the concept of context-dependent memory would predict that your recall would __________.
A)also be poor
B)be good
C)not be affected
D)be significantly enhanced

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Context-dependent memory suggests that recall is better when the context at the time of encoding (studying) matches the context at the time of retrieval (taking the test). Since the study environment was noisy and the test environment is quiet, the mismatch in contexts would predict poor recall.

Imagine That You Have Studied for an Exam in a Noisy