If Items in Working Memory Are Remembered Due to Maintenance

question 76

Multiple Choice

If items in working memory are remembered due to maintenance of those items, the observation that memory is usually superior for items at the end of a serial position curve is known as the:

• A)primacy effect.
• B)recency effect.
• C)serial effect.
• D)curve effect.

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