The Recency Effect

question 73

Multiple Choice

The recency effect

• A) indicates that the important points should be made early.
• B) should be used when the topics are familiar,interesting,or controversial to the receiver.
• C) states the tendency for the last item presented to be the best remembered.
• D) states that the first item in a long list of items is the one most likely to be remembered.
• E) None of the above statements about the recency effect are true.

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Definitions:

Bilingual Children

Children who have the ability to communicate in two languages, either acquired simultaneously in early childhood or sequentially.

Gestural Language

is a form of non-verbal communication using movements of the hands and body to convey messages.

Deaf Children

Children experiencing significant hearing loss, impacting their ability to process linguistic information through hearing.

ASL

American Sign Language, a complete, natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada.