Imagine a 2,000-Acre Park with Picnic Benches, Trees, and a Pond

question 415

Multiple Choice

Imagine a 2,000-acre park with picnic benches, trees, and a pond. Suppose it is publicly owned, and people are invited to enjoy its beauty. When the weather is nice, it is difficult to find parking on summer afternoons. Otherwise, it is a great place. An efficient solution to the parking problem would be to

• A)prohibit parking in the vicinity of the park.
• B)charge higher prices for parking at busy times.
• C)police the parking area and ticket cars that are parked illegally.
• D)do nothing.

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Definitions:

Serial Position Effect

A phenomenon in memory which suggests that when learning a list of items, the probability of recalling an item is dependent on its position in the list, with early and late items being more likely to be remembered than middle items.

Primacy Effect

The tendency to remember information that is presented first or early in a list more effectively than information presented later.

Recency Effect

The psychological phenomenon where the most recently presented information is remembered better than earlier information.

Sequence Order Effect

The phenomenon where the order in which items are presented affects the recall or understanding of those items.