Your anatomy teacher suggests that you memorize the sentence "On Old Olympus Towering Top a Famous Vocal German Viewed Some Hops" to remember the 12 cranial nerves since the first letter of each nerve corresponds to the first letter of each word in this nonsense sentence. This technique is an example of
A)acrostics.
B)the serial position effect.
C)rote learning.
D)progressive-part learning.

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This technique is an example of acrostics, a mnemonic device where the first letters of the words in a sentence or phrase are used to remember a list of items, in this case, the 12 cranial nerves.

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