The Tendency to Remember the Beginning and Ending Items Better

question 10

Multiple Choice

The tendency to remember the beginning and ending items better than the middle items when a list of items is presented is called

• A) eidetic recall.
• B) the ordering effect.
• C) the serial position effect.
• D) the opposite-ends effect.

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