When breaking long lists of information into sublists, make the middle sublists the shortest of all due to
A)the effects of maintenance rehearsal.
B)cue-dependent forgetting.
C)the effects of spaced practice.
D)the serial position effect.

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The serial position effect explains how we tend to remember items at the beginning and end of a list better than those in the middle. Making the middle sublists shorter could help mitigate this effect by reducing the amount of information that falls into the harder-to-remember middle section.

When Breaking Long Lists of Information into Sublists, Make the Middle