You Are Given a List of Grocery Items to Remember

question 68

Multiple Choice

You are given a list of grocery items to remember to purchase on your trip to the store. These items are; apples, bread, celery, lettuce, grapes, and onions. According to the recency effect, what item are you most likely to remember?

• A) apples
• B) lettuce
• C) onions
• D) none, the recency effect states that you have to learn the items while in the store to be able to retrieve them.

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Definitions:

Origins

The point or place where something begins, arises, or is derived.

Oldowan

Relating to or denoting the earliest known stone tool industry, characterized by simple, mostly unifacial core and flake tools used by early humans.

Acheulean Technology

An archaeological term referring to a stone tool industry characterized by distinctive oval and pear-shaped hand-axes associated with early humans, particularly Homo erectus, dating from the Lower Paleolithic era.