Three-Year-Old Kaylee Wet Her Bed One Night

question 67

Multiple Choice

Three-year-old Kaylee wet her bed one night. In the morning, her mother said, "Wetting the bed is bad. I thought you were a good girl." Kaylee's self-evaluation is most strongly influenced by her

• A) mother's feedback.
• B) maturity level.
• C) culture.
• D) gender.

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Definitions:

State-dependent Memory

The phenomenon where information learned in a particular physiological or psychological state is more easily recalled when in the same state.

Retroactive Interference

The phenomenon that occurs when newly learned information interferes with the recall of information learned previously.

Context Reinstatement

A cognitive process that involves reconstructing the circumstances or environment present during learning or an event to aid memory recall.

Transfer-appropriate Processing

A principle suggesting that memory retrieval is more effective when the cognitive processes at retrieval match those at encoding.