What Is the Primacy Effect

question 53

Multiple Choice

What is the primacy effect?

• A) the tendency for people's impressions of others to be influenced by their memory of events that have just recently occurred
• B) the tendency for perceivers to choose to make personal versus situational attributions as a function of which type is initially available
• C) the tendency for people to first make situational attributions and then,only later,to insufficiently correct these attributions so as to take dispositions into account
• D) the tendency for people's impressions of others to be more affected by information that is learned early rather than late in a sequence

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