Sam has three errands to remember on the way home from school. To help him remember what it is he is supposed to do, he creates three interactive images tied to numeric rhymes, such as one is sun, two is blue, three is free. This memory strategy is an example of the mnemonic device known as:

the peg-word system; Chunking is not applicable in this situation - it involves the rearrangement of information into meaningful patterns.

Explanation:

terms in this set (38) portuguese explorer. in 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from europe to sail to india, opening an important commercial sea route.(sailed around africa to india).portuguese navigator who sailed around the cape of good hope and reached the west coast of india in search of spices.