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.

Retrieval Cues

Stimuli or signals that can trigger the recall of information from memory.

Proactive Interference

The phenomenon where old memories make it more difficult to remember new information.

Encoding Specificity

The principle that recall is more effective if the context at the time of encoding matches the context at the time of retrieval.