Moishe Can Remember Only the First Two Items and the Last

question 70

Multiple Choice

Moishe can remember only the first two items and the last two items on the grocery list that his wife just read to him over the phone. The other five items in between are gone. This is an example of the _____________

• A) encoding specificity effect.
• B) serial position effect.
• C) TOT effect.
• D) reintegrative effect.

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