Melissa Has an Ingenious Method for Remembering the Member Countries

Multiple Choice

Melissa has an ingenious method for remembering the member countries of the NATO alliance. Using words that rhyme with the numbers 1, 2, 3, and so on, she forms a visual image of each country interacting with a word that rhymes with a number. For example, she pictures a huge bun which rhymes with "1") sitting on top of Big Ben Great Britain) , a shoe a rhyme for "2") with a tiny Canadian Mountie Canada) perched on its toe, a tree a rhyme for "3") with numerous Statues of Liberty United States) growing from its branches, and so on. Melissa's technique illustrates the use of:

A) verbal mediation
B) an external retrieval cue
C) the pegword method
D) the method of loci