You and your family are leaving on a week-long vacation. as you leave your hometown behind, you begin to feel excited as you anticipate the adventures to come and start remembering other exciting vacations that you have taken over the years with your family. this suggests that your memory is

This suggests that your memory is "state-dependent".

State - dependent memory or which is also known as state-dependent learning refers to the concept where efficiency of remembering the past events or memories is connected with the same situation and state of consciousness as when those recollections were embedded. Like in the given example the retrieval is linked with previous vacations.