After his last drinking spree,Fakim hid a half-empty liquor bottle. He couldn't remember where he hid it until he started drinking again. Fakim's pattern of recall best illustrates

A) the spacing effect.
B) priming.
C) the serial position effect.
D) state-dependent memory.

State-dependent memory refers to the phenomenon where memory retrieval is enhanced when a person's internal state at the time of recall matches their internal state at the time of encoding. In this case, Fakim's internal state (being under the influence of alcohol) when he hid the bottle is the same as his internal state when he started drinking again, leading to the retrieval of the memory of where he hid the bottle.