Maria Is Trying to Recall the Names of All 48

question 77

Multiple Choice

Maria is trying to recall the names of all 48 of the contiguous United States. She begins by naming the New England states, followed by the mid-Atlantic states, the states in the Southeast, the Midwest, the Southwest, and finally the states in the Pacific Northwest. Maria's pattern of recall illustrates the concept of ​

• A)the primacy effect.
• B)levels-of-processing. ​
• C)the serial-position effect. ​
• D)clustering. ​

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Definitions:

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Hans Selye

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Exhaustion Stage

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