Question

Following the death of his father, Scott was extremely despondent for several weeks. During this time, Scott seemed to dwell on other unpleasant memories and other sad experiences in his life.

Scott's recall of other sad memories is an example of:

A) mood congruence.
B) implicit memory.
C) the context effect.
D) memory distortion.

Answer 1

Mood congruence

Step-by-step explanation:

Mood congruence is a psychological phenomenon. It is related to our mood. In this phenomenon, the person's mood is consistent with the information that the person remembers.

Even people remember the information that is associated with their experience at a certain point in time. If a person is in a happy mood then recall happy memories but if you are sad then you will recall the bad memories. When you are learning and you are angry at that time you will remember less positive events.

Thus here in the above context, Scott is in the state of mood congruence because of his father's death. His father's death leads to the other sad memories along.