Donyelle finds that she performs better on the exams that are given in her regular psychology classroom than in the large lecture room that is used to give midterms and finals to several sections at once. Donyelle's experience illustrates

• A. the importance of maintenance rehearsal in memory.
• B. the role of the primacy effect.
• C. the role of the recency effect.
• D. the importance of retrieval cues in memory.