Author Question: You decide that instead of writing down your grocery list, you want to try out one of the mnemonic ... (Read 66 times)

anjilletteb · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

You decide that instead of writing down your grocery list, you want to try out one of the mnemonic strategies you read about in your textbook. To that end, you try to associate each item on the list with a different room in your house. Which mnemonic strategy are you using?

a. acronym
b. pegging
c. method of loci
d. verbal

Question 2

Cicero, an imperial Roman orator, endorses a mnemonic strategy called the method of loci more than 2,000 years ago; the technique is still one of the most powerful known today. The method of loci involves ____.

a. creating visual images associating list items with parts of a well-known place
b. using rhyming word-number lists as a base and associating list items with those
c. telling a story using all the items on the to-be-remembered list
d. repeating a list to yourself over and over until you remember it perfectly