The Psych for Your Life section provides several techniques and suggestions to enhance your memory of information. Which of the following is one of those suggestions?
A)Use maintenance rehearsal to help encode information for meaning.
B)Minimize interference by using massed practice.
C)Counteract the serial position effect by spending more time learning material at the beginning and end of a sequence.
D)Take the distributed practice approach to learning new information.

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The suggestion given in the Psych for Your Life section is to take the distributed practice approach to learning new information, which involves spacing out study sessions over time for better retention of information. Option A suggests using maintenance rehearsal, which may help with holding information in short-term memory but may not result in better long-term retention. Option B suggests minimizing interference, but this does not necessarily result in better memory. Option C suggests spending more time on material at the beginning and end of a sequence, but may not apply to all types of material.

The Psych for Your Life Section Provides Several Techniques and Suggestions