Question

When 80-year-old Ida looked at one of her old wedding pictures, she was flooded with vivid memories of her parents, her husband, and the early years of her marriage. The picture served as a powerful:_________.
(A) memory trace
(B) implicit memory
(C) serial position effect
(D) retrieval cue

Answer 1

Answer:

(D) retrieval cue                                                                      

Explanation:

Retrieval cue: In psychology, the term "retrieval cue" is described as a prompt that assist an individual to remember different things. When an individual tends to make specific new memories then he or she ought to include a few information related to the given situation as well in which those memories are being developed so that it acts as a trigger to approach the given memories.

Retrieval cues help an individual to approach memories that are being stored in his or her long-term memory and therefore helps to carry-out those memories into his or her "conscious awareness".

In the question above, the picture served as a powerful retrieval cue.