With Respect to the Primacy Effect,the First Few Items in a List

question 115

Multiple Choice

With respect to the primacy effect,the first few items in a list are easily remembered because they

• A)receive more elaborate processing than do words later in the list.
• B)are less likely to be rehearsed than words at the end of the list.
• C)drop out of working memory before being encoded into long-term memory.
• D)are less vivid in comparison to auditory stimuli.

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