In order to remember the muscle name latissimusdorsi, Janie thinks of the term as "the ladder misses the door, sigh.". Then she pictures a ladder glued to her back where the muscle is found, and pictures the ladder leading up to her shoulder where a small door should be, but is missing. Lastly, she pictures the ladder sighing like an animated character in a cartoon. Janie has stretched the muscle

name and added mental pictures in order to add meaning and make this technical term more familiar. Janie is using the basic principles of

a. mnemonics.
b. eidetic imagery.
c. implicit priming.
d. rote rehearsal.


A

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