According to the Recency Effect,the Last Few Items in a List

question 149

Multiple Choice

According to the recency effect,the last few items in a list are easily remembered because

• A)they receive less elaborate processing than the items in the middle of the list.
• B)they are permanently stored in echoic memory or permastore memory.
• C)they are more likely to be stored in working memory in than the items in the middle of the list.
• D)they are more likely to drop out of working memory before being encoded than the first few items on the list.

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