You are asked to learn the 50 U.S. states, so you divide the country into geographic areas 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 states at the time of recall.
D. minimizes proactive interference through the ‘blocking’ effect.
Answer:A
You are asked to learn the 50 U.S. states, so you divide the country into geographic areas 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 states at the time of recall. D. minimizes proactive interference through the ‘blocking’ effect.