In a List of Items, We Tend to Forget the Middle

question 169

True/False

In a list of items, we tend to forget the middle ones rather than the ones at the beginning or end.

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Definitions:

Hygiene Factors

Elements related to the work environment that can lead to job dissatisfaction if absent but do not necessarily motivate if present, as described in Herzberg's motivation theory.

Lower-Level Needs

Basic physiological and safety needs in Maslow's hierarchy that must be satisfied before higher-level psychological needs.

Motivation

The method that starts, directs, and sustains actions aimed at achieving goals.

Needs-Hierarchy

A theory in psychology proposed by Abraham Maslow, suggesting that people are motivated by five basic categories of needs: physiological, safety, love, esteem, and self-actualization, in that order.