Moishe Can Remember Only the First Two Items and the Last

question 152

Multiple Choice

Moishe can remember only the first two items and the last two items on the grocery list that his wife just read to him over the phone. The other five items in between are gone. His memory of things at the start of the list demonstrates the ____________.

• A) encoding specificity effect
• B) primacy effect
• C) recency effect
• D) TOT effect

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Definitions:

Sexual Activity

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