Brian is trying to remember the colors of the visible spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Brian decides to use the acronym ROYGBIV, which contains the first letter of each of the colors' names. Brian is using ____ to remember the colors.?
a. ?the method of loci
b. ?semantic coding
c. ?a mnemonic strategy
d. ?decomposition
ANSWER:
c
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