When Tony is in a bad mood,he interprets his parents' comments as criticisms.When he's in a good mood,he interprets the same types of parental comments as helpful suggestions.This best illustrates that our emotional states influence the process of

A) infantile amnesia.
B) encoding.
C) storage.
D) retrieval.

Encoding refers to the process of putting new information into memory. Tony's interpretation of his parents' comments is influenced by his emotional state, which is an example of how emotional states can affect the encoding process. Infantine amnesia refers to the inability to recall memories from early childhood, while storage and retrieval refer to the processes of maintaining and accessing information in memory, respectively.