If You Are Trying to Remember the Names of All

question 11

Multiple Choice

If you are trying to remember the names of all the U.S. presidents, the serial position effect would predict that you will have difficulty

• A) remembering more than about seven (plus or minus two) of them.
• B) recognizing the names of the presidents on a list.
• C) recalling the earliest presidents.
• D) recalling the most recent presidents.
• E) recalling the presidents in the middle of the list.

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Definitions:

Average Number

A value obtained by dividing the sum of all quantities in a dataset by the number of quantities in that dataset, commonly known as the mean.

FCFS

"First Come, First Served," a method of service in which requests are attended to in the order in which they are received.

Balking

The phenomenon where individuals in a queue decide not to enter the queue or leave before being serviced upon assessing the wait time to be too long.

Balking

The phenomenon where customers decide against entering a queue or a service line due to its length or waiting time.