If You Want to Improve Your Memorization of a List

question 46

Multiple Choice

If you want to improve your memorization of a list of words, you should avoid

• A) attaching distinctive retrieval cues to each word on the list.
• B) memorizing similar materials afterward.
• C) thinking about the meaning of each word on the list.
• D) long delays between one study session and the next.

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Definitions:

Decentering

A process of shifting away from a Eurocentric or ethnocentric perspective, recognizing the diversity of viewpoints and experiences.

Antiessentialism

The belief that identities or phenomena are not fixed, inherent, or reducible to some core essence but rather constructed through social, cultural, and historical contexts.

Radical Constructionism

An epistemological viewpoint that suggests knowledge and reality are actively constructed by social or cognitive processes.

Radical Deconstructionism

A philosophical approach that seeks to undermine traditional concepts and categories by exposing their contingent nature and questioning the binary oppositions upon which they rely.