Silas Can Remember Only the First Two Items and the Last

question 39

Multiple Choice

Silas 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 __________ effect.

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

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