For his Eastern history class, Hamilton had to memorize a lengthy list of Chinese emperors. To do so, he imagined each of them sitting in a chair in a different room of his family home. Hamilton was using a technique called:
A)the peg-word method.
B)the method of loci.
C)the misinformation effect.
D)imagination inflation.

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Hamilton was using the method of loci, also known as the memory palace technique, where one associates each piece of information they want to remember with a specific location in a familiar environment. In this case, Hamilton associated each emperor with a different room in his family home.

For His Eastern History Class, Hamilton Had to Memorize a Lengthy