Moishe Can Remember Only the First Two Items and the Last

question 99

Multiple Choice

Moishe 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)tip of the tongue
• D)primacy

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Definitions:

Diameter

A straight line segment passing through the center of a circle or sphere and terminating on both sides of the perimeter, effectively measuring the largest distance across the shape.

Vertex

A point where two or more curves, lines, or edges meet; in geometry, it is often used to describe a corner point of a polygon or an angle.

Parabola

A symmetrical, curved, plane curve, which is the graph of a quadratic function.

Focus

A specific point used in the definition of conic sections, such as the vertex of a parabola or one of the two fixed points in an ellipse or hyperbola.