(psychology) An easily recalled image that a person mentally visualizes with something else, in order to remember that other thing. See mnemonic peg system.
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To remember this list of early psychologists, you recall each peg along with its image of an early psychologist that you placed there.
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2013, Rod Plotnik, Haig Kouyoumdjian, Introduction to Psychology:
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Multiple items can be stored at each location or with each peg.
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2023, W. Scott Terry, Learning and Memory: Basic Principles, Processes, and Procedures, page 168: