Smarty, Age 10, Is Given a List of a Dozen

Multiple Choice

Smarty, age 10, is given a list of a dozen words to memorize. He notices that the words are car names, tree names, and names of states He rearranges the words into those categories and then rehearses. Smarty applied the memorization strategy called

A) elaboration.
B) semantic organization.
C) cardinality elimination by category.
D) analogical reasoning by relational similarity.