How People Tend to Remember Words at the Beginning and End

question 46

Multiple Choice

How people tend to remember words at the beginning and end of a list better than words presented in the middle of the list is called the __________________.

• A) primacy effect
• B) serial position effect
• C) state-dependent memory
• D) recency effect

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