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
ANSWER:
a
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