Jeannie loves to dance, having taken ballet for many years. She is now learning salsa dancing. Although the movements are very different from the dances she is familiar with, she has found a successful memory strategy of linking the new dance information to her previous experiences as a dancer and to her own affection for dance. This strategy suggests reliance on:.
a. the self-reference effect.
b. a mass practice effect.
c. the integrative experience effect.
d. semantic memory.

the self-reference effect

Explanation:

the self-reference effect is the tendency of human mind to encode message differently based on their previous encoded message in the brain. The self reference effect enable one to associate newly learnt message with the old one. This method helps one to remember and retain information more vividly.

Here Jeanie is relating new dance form with older one which will help her to master new movements of salsa and hence she is using self reference effect.

answer; informational social influence;