Francisco is having a hard time remembering that madison is the capital of wisconsin. he also knows that his father will be upset if francisco flunks his test of state capitals. suddenly, francisco sees a connection between these two events adn realizes that he can recall the capital of wisconsin by remembering that his dad will be mad at him if he can't remember (mad at son=madison). in this example, francisco is clearly using to aid in his memory.

Elaboration

 Elaboration is a strategy which involves assigning meaningful information to something you are trying to remember, which in turn would make the non-meaningful information easier to remember.

Francisco is clearly using elaboration to aid in his memory.

The elaboration is a memory strategy, there are different strategies that we use to remember things more easily in our daily life. The elaboration is a memory strategy in which to remember something we assign to the new information a significant code or subject (something we already remember) in this way it will be easier to remember it later.

For example, when writing a password we choose important dates to remember, such as the date of birth, or the age of your siblings.

I hope this information can help you.