A student cramming for an exam relies on rote rehearsal to remember a long list of vocabulary words. According to the levels-of-processing theory, why is this strategy likely to be less effective for long-term retention than using the words in sentences?
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A
Rote rehearsal involves shallow processing based on acoustic features, whereas creating sentences requires deep, semantic processing.
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B
The primacy and recency effects interfere with the storage of information processed through rote rehearsal.
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C
Creating sentences overloads the short-term memory capacity, forcing information into long-term storage.
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D
Rote rehearsal creates proactive interference, making it difficult to recall information later.