According to the Research on the Primacy Effect, If Your

question 94

Multiple Choice

According to the research on the primacy effect, if your father read you a list of 10 items to pick up at the hardware store, you would most easily recall those items

• A)from early in the list.
• B)in the middle of the list.
• C)from the end of the list.
• D)that are most distinctive.

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Definitions:

Discrimination

Unfair or prejudicial treatment of people based on categories such as race, age, sex, or disability instead of individual merit.

Mental Image

The representation in a person's mind of the physical world outside that individual.

Counterconditioning

A therapeutic technique aiming to change the response to a certain stimulus by associating it with a new, more desirable behavior or response.

Operant Conditioning

A learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment, developed by B.F. Skinner.