Elementary school students in the US are often taught to use the very familiar word "homes" as a cue for remembering the names o
f the Great Lakes (each letter in "homes" provides a first-letter cue for one of the lakes: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior). This memory procedure usually works better than repeating the names over and over, which provides an example of ________.
Elaborative rehearsal consists in associating new knowledge with previous knowledge. It's possible to use mnemonic devices (as in the example), as well as summaries, mind-maps and questionnaires.
Elaborative rehearsal is useful for encoding information into the long-term memory.
