When Children Are First Learning the Alphabet, They Tend to Be

question 36

Multiple Choice

When children are first learning the alphabet, they tend to be accurate on the ABCD portion and the WXYZ portion while making lots of mistakes in between. This represents the

• A)primacy effect.
• B)recency effect.
• C)serial position effect.
• D)retrograde amnesia.
• E)anterograde amnesia.

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