You Are Asked to Learn 100 World Cities,so You Divide

question 71

Multiple Choice

You are asked to learn 100 world cities,so you divide the cities into their continents and set about your task.You are more likely to succeed than someone who begins to learn the states at random,because your system

• A)capitalizes on the serial-position effect by fragmenting the task.
• B)employs cues to organize your transfer from sensory memory.
• C)helps you encode the names of the cities at the time of recall.
• D)minimizes proactive interference through the 'blocking' effect.

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