An elementary school teacher told her students to think of "Roy G. Biv" to remember the colors of a rainbow in the correct order. That is, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. This process by which this information is transferred to long-term memory through this technique is an example of _____.
A) encoding
B) retrieval
C) categorization
D) capacitating
E) enabling

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Encoding refers to the process of transferring information from sensory memory to long-term memory. The teacher's use of the mnemonic device "Roy G. Biv" is a technique for encoding the colors of the rainbow into long-term memory.

An Elementary School Teacher Told Her Students to Think of "Roy