Your teacher wants to help students remember the parts of the neuron, so he acts it out. He stands in front of the class and holds out his leg, which he says is an axon; his pants represent a myelin sheath

His body is the soma and his fingers represent dendrites. What technique is he using?
a) coding
b) grouping
c) mental imagery
d) the pegword method

ANS: c

Psychology

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Psychology