You Are Running a Study on the Serial Position Effect

question 531

Multiple Choice

You are running a study on the serial position effect in your lab. You decide to introduce a 30 second delay at the start of the word list and have participants count backwards by threes. Then they are presented with a list of 30 words to remember. Recall takes place immediately. This procedure should reduce or remove the

• A)primacy effect
• B)recency effect
• C)episodic memory
• D)source confusion effect
• E)nothing-the delay needs to be at the end of the list to have an effect

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